Wazim Mowla is the associate director and fellow of the Caribbean Initiative at the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center. He leads the development and execution of the initiative’s programming, including the Financial Inclusion Task Force, the US-Caribbean Consultative Group, the PACC 2030 Working Group, and the Caribbean Energy Working Group. Since joining the Council, Mowla has co-authored major publications on the strategic importance of sending US COVID-19 vaccines to the Caribbean, strategies to address financial de-risking, and how the United States can advance new policies to support climate and energy resilience. As part of his work on the Caribbean, Mowla was called to provide Congressional testimony to the US House Financial Services Committee on financial de-risking.

Mowla is also a nonresident scholar at Florida International University’s Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy in Miami, Florida, and is an affiliate of the Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative at the Overseas Development Institute in the United Kingdom. He is frequently called on to brief US and Caribbean government officials on the direction of US-Caribbean relations and Caribbean politics, economic development, financial inclusion, security cooperation, and energy security. Mowla’s writings are frequently featured in US and Caribbean media including the Miami Herald, Foreign Policy, the National Interest, and Caribbean News Global, among others. He also writes a monthly column for the Guyanese newspaper Stabroek News on Guyana’s foreign policy and its role in world affairs. Mowla holds bachelor’s degrees in international relations and history and a master’s degree in public history from Florida International University, as well as a master’s degree in comparative regional studies from American University.