Soumitra Dutta is the Roland Berger Chaired Professor of Business and Technology, and Dean of External Relations at INSEAD. He is the faculty director of elab@INSEAD, INSEAD's initiative in building a center of excellence in teaching and research in the digital economy in collaboration with leading international organizations such as Morgan Stanley, SAP, Cisco and Intel. He is the Chairman of the European Commission's Europe Innova panel on Innovation in the ICT sector and a member of the Steering Committee of eBSN, the European Commission's eBusiness Network initiative for SMEs.

Javier Santiso, Director of the OECD Development Centre, holds both French and Spanish nationalities. He is member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council. He is member of the Advisory Panel of the Human Development Report 2009 of United Nations Development Programme and the Advisory Council of Aspen Institute France.

Ángel Alonso is Policy Results Coordinator at the OECD Development Centre, with a focus on Latin America. Prior to joining the OECD, he was a program associate for the Democracy Coalition Project in Washington DC, worked for the World Bank in Malawi and was a research assistant at Georgetown University. Throughout his career, Ángel has consulted for various Spanish think tanks and foundations on communications and international politics.

Adrià Alsina, who holds Spanish and Portuguese nationalities, is part of the Publications and New Media Team at the OECD Development Centre since November 2008. Prior to joining the OECD, he was media officer at the Spanish Trade Commission in São Paulo, Brazil. He did also work as a business reporter for several Spanish and international communication media such as Bloomberg, Dossier Economic or TV3.

Lourdes Casanova specializes in international business with a focus on Latin America and multinationals from emerging markets. A Fulbright Scholar during 1987-1989, she has a Masters degree from the University of Southern California and a PhD from the University of Barcelona. She has taught at INSEAD since 1989, was a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley from 1996 – 1999. She is a visiting Faculty at the University of Zurich since 2004 and a consultant of the Inter-American Development Bank since 2001.

Rita Da Costa, a Spanish and Portuguese national, is a policy analyst for the Latin American and Caribbean Desk, where she combines research and outreach activities. She joined the Development Centre in November 2007 after having worked at the Spanish Permanent Mission to WTO/UNCTAD in Geneva as an ICEX young professional (Spanish Ministry of Industry Tourism and Foreign Trade program).

Jeff Dayton-Johnson is the Head of the Development Centre’s Latin America and Caribbean Desk, the principal activity of which is the Latin American Economic Outlook. Jeff also co-ordinates the Centre’s work on migration and development. Jeff received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and received his undergraduate education at Berkeley and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Nils Fonstad joined in December 2008 eLab. a global research center within the business school INSEAD focused on how public and private institutions throughout the world create value from the knowledge economy. He conducts research on innovation and on how organizations and countries develop and foster skills critical for competing in a global knowledge economy (i.e., "e-competencies"). Before then, he worked as a research scientist at MIT Center for Information Systems Research (MIT CISR).

Alba Martínez is a Research Associate at Latin American Desk at the OECD Development Center where she is currently working on the InnovaLatino project and the Latin American Economic Outlook. Her professional experience includes the Center of Research for development (Centro de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo) at the National University of Colombia and the Intelligence of the Markets module at the Colombia International Corporation (Corporacion Colombia Internacional).

Caroline Paunov is an Economist at the Latin American and Caribbean Desk. Previously she worked for the Development Economic Research Group of the World Bank, the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, in Chile, and the Directorate for Science Technology and Industry of the OECD. She was also involved in an EU research project on industrial innovation and has experience working for the public policy sectors in Brazil, Spain and Germany.