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Advisory
Committee
The Center’s Advisory
Committee weekend in May featured
a discussion with Harvard
President Lawrence Summers,
who reflected on his April 2004
visit to Brazil and Chile.
Summers noted that the challenge
of the University in the
21st century is to offer an education
that prepares students to
succeed in a fully globalized
world. Emphasizing the importance
of understanding other
cultures and speaking other languages,
Summers cited the
David Rockefeller Center as a
model on which to develop and
strengthen international education
at Harvard. The Center’s
Regional Office in Santiago represents
an exemplary initiative,
Summers said, which he would
like to replicate “in a dozen
cities around the world, including
Mexico City and São Paulo.”
Guests also had the opportunity
to attend a presentation
on the Allston Initiative, a new
planning effort for the
University’s physical development
in the Boston neighborhood
of Allston over the coming
decades. The Allston project
represents the most profound
transformation of the Harvard
campus since the construction
of the Harvard Business School
on the banks of the Charles
River in the early 1900s.
At the opening banquet,
John Coatsworth announced the
appointment of Kenneth
Maxwell as the Center’s first
Senior Fellow. Maxwell is the
former Nelson and David
Rockefeller Chair of Inter-
American Studies at the Council
on Foreign Relations. A distinguished
historian and essayist,
Maxwell will also hold an
appointment in the History
Department and teach courses
on Brazilian history. His
appointment promises to be a
great boon to the Brazilian
Studies Program.
During the Executive
Session, Advisory Committee
members offered reports on the
Regional Office and the plans for
a presidential visit to Mexico in
March 2005, as well as on the
Center’s 10th anniversary events
to be held in December 2004.
John Coatsworth described a
strategic planning process underway
at the Center, which has
been launched with an internal
review of Center programs and
operations. The review will
provide data for a detailed organizational
case study to be
written with the help of HBS
Professor and DRCLAS
Executive Committee member
James Austin. The Center will
complete a five-year strategic
plan to be discussed at the 2005
DRCLAS founder David Rockefeller at the May 2004 Advisory Committee meeting.
Advisory Committee meeting in
Mexico, the first such meeting to
be held in Latin America.
The weekend concluded
with a series of faculty seminars
featuring members of the
Harvard faculty and Visiting
Professors. In a discussion on
Latin America and the Washington
Consensus, Visiting Professor
Domingo Cavallo and Professor
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
(HLS) addressed the economic
stagnation and persistent
inequality that grip Latin
America, which are commonly
perceived as consequences of
the failure of the Washington
Consensus. Enterprising young
Latin American architects and
public policy specialists presented
the seminar Innovations in
Social Housing in Latin America,
in which they described the
ELEMENTAL project to construct
low-cost housing in
Santiago, Chile. The seminar,
The U.S. Presidential Elections:
Implications for Latin America, featured
a lively discussion among
John Coatsworth, KSG professor
David Gergen, Mexican Visiting
Scholar Soledad Loaeza and
Americas Society President
Susan Segal. Finally, Harvard biologists
Brian Farrell and Edward
O. Wilson discussed Biodiversity
in Latin America: The Case of the
Caribbean, which featured their
documentation of plant and
animal species in the region.
Advisory Committee
Members
Manuel Arango, Mexico
Gastón Azcárraga, Mexico
Pedro Nicolás Baridón, Uruguay
Eneko de Belausteguigoitia, Mexico
Arturo Brillembourg and Hilda Ochoa-
Brillembourg, United States
Roberto P. Cezar de Andrade, Brazil
Gustavo A. and Patricia Phelps de
Cisneros, Venezuela
Eduardo F. Costantini, Argentina
Tony Custer, Peru
Francisco de Sola, El Salvador
Peggy Dulany, United States
John C. Duncan, United States
Agustín E. Edwards, Chile
Juan C. and Mary S. Enríquez,
United States
Angeles Espinosa Yglesias, Mexico
Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, Argentina
Dionisio Garza Medina, Mexico
Jaime and Raquel Gilinski, Colombia
Roberto Hernández Ramirez, Mexico
Roland A. Hernández, United States
Enrique V. Iglesias, Uruguay
Israel Klabin, Brazil
George W. Landau, United States
Philip Lehner, United States
Jorge Paulo Lemann, Brazil
Andrónico Luksic, Chile
Antonio Madero, Mexico
Martha T. Muse, United States
Ricardo Poma, El Salvador
Pablo A. and Luisa E. Pulido, Venezuela
David Rockefeller, United States
Fernando Romero Moreno, Bolivia
Orlando Sacasa, United States
Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Colombia
Carlos Slim Helú, Mexico
Francisco Soler, El Salvador
Lorenzo D. Weisman, United States
Major Gifts
New contributions to the Center
this year included a major gift of
$1.5 million from Advisory
Committee member Jorge Paulo
Lemann to establish a permanent
endowment for the Brazilian
Studies Program. Developed in
1999, the Program has enabled
the Center to bring scholars and
professors to Harvard and invite
leading public policy makers and
business and philanthropic
leaders to discuss contemporary
issues. The program also supports
a wide range of Brazil-related
activities, including student and
faculty research, student travel
grants and internships, and
Center publications. This generous
commitment from a longtime
friend of the Center assures the
growth and development of
Brazilian Studies at the University
for generations to come.
A number of Advisory
Committee members made significant
new commitments this
year in honor of the Center's
10th anniversary in December
2004. We are deeply grateful to
Arturo and Hilda Ochoa-
Brillembourg, Tony Custer,
Philip Lehner, Ricardo Poma,
Orlando Sacasa, Francisco Soler
and Lorenzo Weisman for
strengthening the Center’s core
endowment for the new decade.
It is with great sadness that
we commemorate this year the
death of Federico Bloch MBA
’79, a Corporate Partner and
true friend of the Center.
Through his generous gifts of
resources and time, he constantly
affirmed his love for
Harvard and his fervent belief in
the future of Central America.
The Center has been the
beneficiary of endowment and
gift funds from a host of
Advisory Committee members
and friends, whose gifts provide
continuous support for the
Center’s activities and programs:
Miguel Aleman
Emilio Azcárraga (†)
Gastón Azcárraga
Federico Bloch MBA ’79 (†)
Arturo AB’68 and Hilda Ochoa
Brillembourg MPA ’72
Estrellita Bograd Brodsky
Arthur Byrnes AB ’67
Gustavo and Patricia Cisneros
Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat
Francisco de Sola AB ’67
Angeles Espinosa Yglesias
Ernesto Fernández-Holmann MPA ’66,
PhD ’68, AMP ’76
Mark B. Fuller AB ’75, MBA ’78, JD ’78
and Jo Froman MBA ’79
Dionisio Garza Medina MBA ’79
Jaime MBA ’80 and Raquel Gilinski
Alejandro AB ’68, Joaquin and Miguel
Gómez
José Ignacio González MBA ’67
Albert Gordon AB ’23, MBA ’25, LLD ’77
and Mary Gordon Roberts
James AB ’57 and Isabel Hammond
Robert Hildreth AB ’72
Joli Quentin Kansil
Israel Klabin
Carlos Lacayo AMP ’84
Philip Lehner AB ’46
Jorge Paulo Lemann AB ’61
John W. Littlefield, Jr. AB ’76
Andrónico and Patricia Luksic
Antonio Madero MBA ’61
Wilbur Marvin AB ’41 (†)
Ricardo Poma MBA ’70
Lauren Reiss AB ’98, MBA ’03
David Rockefeller SB ’36, LLD ’69
Orlando Sacasa AB ’71, MBA ’78
Adolfo Salume AB ’84, MBA ’85
Julio Mario Santo Domingo
Francisco Soler AB ’67, MBA ’70
Lorenzo Weisman AB ’66
Foundations
Christopher Reynolds
Foundation
In May 2004, the Center
received a $25,000 grant from
the Christopher Reynolds
Foundation. The award will help
underwrite the publication of a
new volume in the DRCLAS
Book Series, The Cuban Economy
at the Start of the Twenty-First
Century. Edited by Jorge I.
Domínguez, Omar Everleny
Pérez Villanueva and Lorena
Barberia, this volume examines
lessons learned from recent
reforms and their impact on the
Cuban economy. The book represents
a collaborative effort
between scholars in the United
States and Cuba, all of whom
have spent short-term research
visits at Harvard as part of the
Center’s Cuban Visiting Scholar
Program. The volume will be
distributed by Harvard
University Press and launched at
a special panel session during
the October 2004 Latin
American Studies Association’s
International Congress.
Ford Foundation
The support of a $140,000
grant from the Ford Foundation
enables the Center to advance
cutting-edge research on public
management in education,
applied social policy research on
poverty and health policy
research on HIV/AIDS,
through joint collaboration
between Harvard researchers
and Cuban counterparts. As part
of this collaboration, the Center
organized a two-part research
conference on Poverty, Inequality
and Applied Social Research in
Cambridge (April 2003) and
Havana (January 2004). This
research will be featured in the
new volume, The Cuban Economy
at the Start of the Twenty-First
Century (Edited by Jorge I.
Domínguez, Omar Everleny
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Pérez Villanueva and Lorena
Barberia). In addition, the Ford
Foundation grant underwrites
an ongoing project on
HIV/AIDS Resource Allocation
between the Instituto de
Medicina Tropical Pedro Kourí,
Harvard Medical School’s
Department of Social Medicine
and the Pan-American Health
Organization on HIV/AIDS
Resource Allocation in the
Caribbean.
William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation
The William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation has enabled
DRCLAS to collaborate with
Latin American institutions on
the understanding of real-world
problems and the promotion of
viable policy options in areas
such as equitable economic
growth and democratic governance,
as well as the creation of
new spaces for dialogue about
important societal challenges.
The Hewlett Foundation support
also assisted in the development
of an entirely new institutional
model for Harvard University:
the DRCLAS Regional Office in
Santiago, Chile.
The Hewlett Foundation
contributed to numerous initiatives
that have built partnerships
with local institutions. The
ELEMENTAL project, for
example, is a collaboration of
the Harvard Graduate School of
Design, the Catholic University
of Chile, DRCLAS and other
private and non-governmental
organizations in Chile to
promote innovative designs in
low-cost social housing that will
result in the construction of
housing in Chile for more than
1,500 families. The Hewlett
Foundation also helped
Kennedy School of Government
Professor Andrés Velasco and
his colleagues publish and disseminate
new economic theories