Our Board of Directors

CHRIS CARRINGTON

Mr. Carrington is a Managing Director of Alvarez & Marsal, and is currently serving in a key leadership role in an engagement with a Caribbean-based government entity; with more than 35 years of financial and operational experience, he has founded and managed cross-border advisory practices, specializing in advising entities operating on a global basis. Mr. Carrington earned an undergraduate degree in business administration from Temple University and a master’s degree in accounting from the Wharton School.

Pablo piccato

Mr. Piccato is Professor of History at Columbia University and Director of Columbia’s Institute of Latin American Studies.  He received his M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Texas at Austin, and is a 1990 graduate of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City.  He is on the Editorial Board of the Law and History Review.  Professor Piccato specializes in Mexican history. He has worked on the political and cultural history of Mexico, and on the history of crime. He is the author of many books, including: City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931 (Duke University Press, 2001), The Tyranny of Opinion: Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public Sphere (Duke University Press, 2010) and A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth and Justice in Mexico (University of California Press, 2017).  Among Professor Piccato’s many scholarly articles is “Pistoleros, Ley Fuga, and Uncertainty in Public Debates about Murder in Twentieth-Century Mexico” in Dictablanda: Politics, Work, and Culture in Mexico, 1938–1968, edited by Paul Gillingham and Benjamin Smith (Duke University Press, 2014).

JOHN E. ROGERS

Mr. Rogers is Senior Counsel with the law firm Clark Hill Strasburger and divides his time between the firm’s offices in Mexico City and New York.  Mr. Rogers established the firm’s New York office in 2007 and is currently in charge of its office in Mexico City, where he has resided for more than 25 years overall.  He is a former chair of the Committee on Inter-American Affairs of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and a former co-chair of the Mexican Law Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section on International Law.  He is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School.

ALEX STERN

Mr. Stern is a Senior Advisor at Kroll (formerly Duff & Phelps) and is a seasoned finance and consulting executive with a long track record of leadership across diverse industries and global markets; in 2023 and 2024, he had the CFO position at Backbone, where he oversaw the financial strategies, capital raising, and multi-national operations of the company. Previously, as Managing Director and Valuation Services Leader at Kroll, Alex pioneered the Valuation Advisory practice for Mexico and Latin America, driving significant business growth through expert financial advisory services.  Mr. Stern has lived in Europe, the U.S. and Latin America, and holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and a M.B.A. degree from the University of Salford in Manchester, UK.

Barbara Weinstein

Ms. Weinstein is Professor of History and former chair of the History Department of New York University.  Her research has focused on postcolonial Latin America, particularly Brazil. Her courses and publications explore questions of labor, gender, race, and political economy in regions as diverse as the Amazon, with the world's largest rainforest, and the state of São Paulo, Latin America’s leading industrial center. Weinstein’s most recent book is "The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2015)". Ms. Weinstein earned her undergraduate degree at Princeton University and her Ph.D at Yale University. Before moving to NYU, she was on the faculty at Stony Brook University and the University of Maryland, and she has also taught as a Fulbright lecturer at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2010-11 she was a resident fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2007, she served as president of the American Historical Association.