Americas Regional Conference on the Right of Access to Information April 28-30, 2009 Lima, Peru

Martin Abregu Program Officer, Andean Region and Southern Cone Office, Ford Foundation, Chile Luis Enrique Aguilar Human Rights Coordinator, Comisión Andina de Juristas, Peru Gilma Agurcia Commissioner, Institute of Access to Public Information, Government of Honduras Lance Alloway Senior Associate Director, Development Department, The Carter Center, USA Laura Alonso Executive Director, Poder Ciudadano, Argentina Patricia Álvarez National Executive Director, Capacitación y Derechos Ciudadanos, Bolivia Rosental Alves Professor & Director, Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, University of Texas, Brazil/US Jaime Aparicio Otero President, Inter-American Juridical Committee, Organization of American States Carlos Alberto Barreda Vice Minister of Public Finances, Government of Guatemala, Guatemala Eneida Bastos Paes Legal Advisor, Office of the Comptroller General, Brazil Leila Bezerra Motta Finance and Control Analyst, Office of the Comptroller General, Brazil Catalina Botero Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Human Rights Commission, Organization of American States Jim Bronskill Journalist, The Canadian Press, Canada Richard Calland Part-time Executive Director, Open Democracy Advice Center (ODAC) & Acting Manager, Economic Governance Program, Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA) Santiago Cantón Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States Hugo Carrión Director, Information Society Programs, Grupo FARO, Ecuador Jimmy Carter Former President of the United States of America, Founder, Carter Center, USA Rosalynn Carter Former First Lady of the United States of America, Founder, Carter Center, USA Javier Casas Director, Office of Access to Public Information, Institute of Press and Society (IPYS), Peru Fernando Castañeda Advisor on Constitutional Affairs, Human Rights Ombudsman, Government of Peru Gil Castelo Branco Economic Consultant, Contas Abertas, Brazil Luis Castro Advisor, Alternative Representative, Permanent Representation of Peru before the Organization of American States Jorge Chediek Resident Coordinator, United Nations Development Program, United Nations David Cohen Senior Fellow, Civic Ventures & President, Global Integrity, USA Sandra Coliver Senior Legal Officer for Freedom of Information and Expression, Open Society Justice Initiative, USA Adalid Contreras General Director, Andean Community of Nations General Secretariat, Peru Damian Cox Director, Access to Information Unit, Office of the Prime Minister, Jamaica Maria Elizabeth Dasso Senior Social Development & Civil Society Specialist, World Bank Mercedes de Freitas Executive Director, Transparencia Venezuela, Venezuela

In collaboration with

María del Carmen Palau Specialist in Transparency and Governance, Department of State Modernization, Organization of American States Christina del Castillo Anticorruption Advisor, Office of Democracy in Governance, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict & Humanitarian Assistance, US Agency for International Developm ent Gonzalo Deustua Country Specialist, Country Department Andean Group, Inter-American Development Bank Carole Excell Coordinator, Freedom of Information Unit, Cayman Islands Darce Fardy President, Right to Know Coalition of Nova Scotia, Canada Benjamin Fernandez Knight International Journalism Fellow, John S. and James L Knight Foundation, USA Joseph Foti Associate, Access Initiative and the Partnership for Principle 10, World Resources Institute, USA Brent Fuller Photo-Journalist & Assistant Editorial Coordinator, Cayman Free Press, Cayman Islands Mario Fuentes Destarac President, Centro para la Defensa de la Constitución (Codecon), Guatemala Diego García - Sayán Vice President, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Peru Debra Gersh Hernandez Coordinator, Sunshine Week; American Society of Newspaper Editors, USA María Julia Giorgelli Director o f Acc ess to Information, Asociación por los Derechos Civiles, Argentina David Gollob Senior Vice President, Policy and Communications, Canadian Newspaper Association, Canada Carolyn Gomes Executive Director, Jamaicans for Justice, Jamaica Bernardo González-Aréchiga Director, School of Public Administration, Monterrey Tec, Mexico Juan Pablo Guerrero Commissioner, Federal Institute of Access to Public Information, Mexico Jorge Hage Sobrinho Minister of State, Head of the Office of the Comptroller General, Member of Council on Public Transparency and Combating Corruption, Brazil Chris Hale Consultant, Access to Information, Transparency and Governance Team, World Bank Institute Alvaro Herero Executive Director, Asociación Por Los Derechos Civiles (ADC), Argentina Alfonso Hernández Valdez Professor & Researcher, Department of Socio-Political and Legal Studies, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO), México CR Hibbs Program Officer and Managing Director for Mexico, Global Development, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, USA Carlos Felipe Jaramillo Country Director for Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, World Bank Agustín Jarquín Anaya Federal Representative & President of the Population and Municipality Commission, National Assembly of Nicaragua, Nicaragua Edison Lanza Director, Center of Access to Public Information, Government of Uruguay Silvana Lauzán Director, Democracy and Human Rights Program, Center for Human Rights, University of Chile, Chile Suzanne Legault Assistant Information Commissioner, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada Kela León Amézaga Executive Director, Consejo de la Prensa Peruana, Peru Joshua Lichtenstein Manager, Latin American Program, Bank Information Center, USA Daniel Lizárraga Journalist, Proceso, Mexico Manfredo Marroquín Executive Director, Acción Ciudadana, Guatemala & Regional Representative for Transparency International Conrad Martin Executive Director, Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust, USA Emilene Martínez Morales Transparency Programs Coordinator, National Security Archive, George Washington University, USA Jennifer McCoy Director, Americas Program, Carter Center, USA Patrice McDermott Director, OpenTheGovernment.org, USA Tamer Medina Minister of Institutional Transparency and Anti-Corruption, Bolivia Andrés Mejía Legal Counsel, Instituto Prensa y Sociedad, Colombia Thelma Mejía Officer, Department of Analysis, National Anticorruption Council, Honduras Javier Meléndez Executive Director, Instituto de Estudios Estratégicos y Políticas Públicas, Nicaragua Marcos Mendiburu Social Development Specialist, World Bank Institute Beatriz Merino Human Rights Ombudsman for the Government of Peru, Peru Silvia Molina Regional Coordinator, Latin American and Caribbean Program, Bank Information Center, USA Carlos Monge Latin American Regional Coordinator, Revenue Watch Institute, Peru Manuel Mora MacBeath Journalist, A.M. de León Guanajuato, México Ivana Moreira Journalist & Member of Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism, Brazil Sean Moulton Director, Federal Information Policy, OMB Watch, USA Laura Neuman Access to Information Manager and Associate Director, Americas Program, Carter Center, USA Guillermo Noriega Esparza Director, Investigative Team, Sonora Ciudadana AC, Mexico Juan Pablo Olmedo President, Council for Transparency, Government of Chile, Chile Emilio José Ortega Porras Program Officer, Fundación Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Nicaragua Marta Oyhanarte Undersecretary of Institutional Relations, Government of Argentina Gustavo Palencia Treasurer, Comité por la Libre Expresión, Honduras Mitchell Pearlman Executive Director Emeritus, Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission & Lecturer in Law and Journalism, University of Connecticut Leda Perez Regional consultant, Medicines Transparency Alliance, Vice President Health Initiatives, Collins Center for Public Policy Peru/UK Orlando Pérez Communication Director of the Finance and Legislative Committee, Government of Ecuador, Ecuador Nuria Piera Investigative Journalist, Dominican Republic Carlos E. Pimentel Florenzán Director, Transparency and Public Administration, Participación Ciudadana, Dominican Republic Suzanne Piotrowski Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University, USA Maria Poli Governance & Accountability Specialist, Latin America and Caribbean Region, World Bank Miguel Pulido Project Manager, Transparency and Accountability, FUNDAR, Mexico Darío Ramírez Director, Mexico Office, ARTICLE 19, UK César Ricaurte Executive Director, FUNDAMEDIOS, Ecuador Katitza Rodríguez Director, International Privacy Program, Electronic Privacy Information Center, USA Orietta Rodríguez Program Officer, Aid section, Canadian Embassy, Canada Jorge Romero León Executive Director, FUNDAR, Mexico Roberto Saba Dean, School of Law, Palermo University, Argentina Katya Salazar Executive Director, Due Process Law Foundation, USA Elizabeth Salguero Federal Representative, House of Representatives, Government of Bolivia Moisés Sánchez Executive Director, Fundación Pro Acceso, Chile Jorge Santistevan de Noriega Former Ombudsman, Partner of Santistevan de Noriega and Assoc., Peru Patrick Schmidt Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Macalester College, USA Yehude Simon Munaro Prime Minister, President of the Council of Ministers, Government of Peru Shekhar Singh Professor, National Campaign for People’s Right to Information, India Maria Rosario Soraide Duran Consultant, Access to Information, Transparency and Governance Team, World Bank Institute Dario Soto-Abril Deputy Director, Trust for the Americas, Organization of American States Germán Stalker Coordinator, Participatory Policy, Undersecretary for Institutional Relations, Argentina Thomas Susman Director, Government Affairs Office, American Bar Association, USA Anel Townsend Advisory Council Member, PARLATINO and Consultant, Inter-American Development Bank Ricardo Uceda Executive Director, Instituto Prensa y Sociedad, Peru Mignone Vega Sánchez Independent consultant, Strategic Communications and Governability, Former Director of Communication for the Presidency, Nicaragua Ricardo Verdum Political Advisor Indígenas Socioambientales INESC Juan Cruz Vieyra Technical Advisor to the Anticorruption Activities Trust Fund, Institutional Capacity of the State Division, Inter-American Development Bank Development Bank Elizabeth Velasco Journalist, La Jornada, Mexico Vânia Lúcia Ribeiro Vieira Director, Program of Corruption Prevention, Office of the Comptroller General, Brazil Marcos Villamán Executive Director, National Council for State Reform, Government of the Dominican Republic, Dominican Republic. Vladimir Villegas Poljak Journalist, Grupo Unión Radio, Venezuela John Wilson Legal Advisor, Department of International Law, Organization of American States Juan Javier Zeballos Executive Director, Asociación Nacional de la Prensa, Bolivia Carlos Zelada Attorney, Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Organization of American States Laura Zommer Communications Director, Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento, Argentina

Staff Kari Mackey Asst. Project Coordinator, Access to Information Project, Americas Program, The Carter Center USA Sarah King Program Assistant, Americas Program, The Carter Center USA Courtney Mwangura Finace, The Carter Center Meg McDermott Adrienne Thompson Jon Mark Walls