Jorge Guzman is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, where he supports all Colombia programming. He is the senior counselor for the Board of Executive Directors at the Office of Colombia and Peru at the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB) and IDB Invest.

Guzman has more than seventeen years of experience across multilateral, public, and diplomatic sectors. He has managed more than seven hundred social projects and designed public policies across Latin America, with a strong focus on vulnerable communities and rural regions. His expertise spans inequality, foreign relations, national security, and Latin American development, supported by advanced skills in negotiation, international relations, and social responsibility.

For his master’s degree in public management, Guzman developed a methodology for project development in vulnerable rural communities, leveraging both his academic training and practical experience gained while working at the Colombian embassy in Venezuela and the Office of the Vice President of Colombia. As consul general of Colombia in Calgary, Canada, he spearheaded numerous social and cultural initiatives to support Colombian victims of internal conflict and to strengthen the integration of the Latin American community in Alberta.

Guzman was also a Fulbright scholar and has a PhD in political science. During his doctoral studies at Loyola University Chicago, his dissertation, Reducing Inequality and Poverty in Latin America: Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, was awarded with distinction. He also served on the editorial committee of Chronicles Along the Border and has published and presented research at leading institutions, including the Centre for European Policy Studies and the Midwest Political Science Association. As a visiting researcher at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, he continued advancing research on inequality in Latin America.