- "If you look back on a year and it doesn't bring you tears either of sadness or of joy, consider the year wasted." -- John Cage, Ally McBeal
Agora’s advisory boards are made up of individuals who serve as our ambassadors and counselors by broadcasting our brand and providing us with guidance and expertise.
Peter Flaherty, Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Jay Coen Gilbert, Co-Founder, B Lab
Carol Lancaster, Dean, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service
John Marks, President and Founder, Search for Common Ground
William Osborn, Managing Director, Massachusetts Green Energy Fund, Commons Capital
Morgan Simon, Toniic
Paul E. Tierney Jr., Chairman, TechnoServe
Mirei Endaras, Director, CALI Foundation
Andrew Kaasoy, Co-Founder, B Lab
Armando Laborde, Director, Mexico & Central America , Ashoka
Manuel Lorenzo, Ciudad del Saber, Panama
Deb Parsons, Co-Director, Investors’ Circle
Eugenia Podesta, Senior Program Officer, Latin America and the Caribbean, Vital Voices
Samuel Salazar, Director, Proinnova, FUSADES
Agora’s New York Young Professionals Board (YPB) is a group based in New York City whose main goal is to promote Agora’s name, fundraise and assist in the execution of one-off projects. To learn more about helping Agora in NYC or another location, please consider applying.
Maria Jose Arias, JP Morgan

Former Agora Fellow Emma Taylor announces the formation of the Young Professionals Board
Carla Franklin, New York State Senate
Raquel Fernandez, JP Morgan
Patricia Figueroa, Blue Heron Research Partners
Nick Fulco, CCMP Capital Advisors
Wesley Fuller, Falcon Investment Advisors
Alvaro Guevara, Earnst & Young
Alina Rekhtman, Columbia Business School