Jose Echeverría is a nonresident fellow with the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center and a 2022 Atlantic Council Millennium fellow at the Atlantic Council. He is the executive director of the US- Guatemala Business Council, an organization that aims to promote dialogue between private and public sector representatives of both countries. He previously served as the executive president of Movimiento Cívico Nacional, a nongovernmental organization that works to strengthen institutions, promote civic leadership, and improve democracy and rule of law in Guatemala.

Echeverría is a lawyer by trade and graduated from the Universidad Francisco Marroquín. He also holds a master’s degree in public policy from Princeton Univeristy. He has ample experience in media as a radio and TV host, political commentator, and analyst, and previously coordinated a column called “CIVITAS,” a space for young professionals to write about Guatemalan political issues in Prensa Libre, one of the largest newspapers in the country.