FORA.tv Speaker - Alvaro Rodriguez-Arregui

In 2005 Álvaro was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. In 2008 he was invited as a member of the Forum's Global Agenda Council. He is co-founder of IGNIA Partners, a venture capital social investment firm based in Monterrey, Mexico that is focused on investing in and developing commercial enterprises serving the base of the socio-economic pyramid. He is Chair of the Board of ACCION International, a Boston, Massachusetts based nonprofit and a global pioneer of microfinance and worldwide leading development organization in the field. He is a member of the Young President's Organization, Monterrey chapter. In addition, the magazine América Economía recently named him as one of 10 "Leaders of the Future" in Latin America. Álvaro is a Pan American (1991) and Central American (1990) rowing medalist and was eighth in the World University Games (1989).