Jason Marczak

Jason Marczak is director of the Latin America Economic Growth Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center. He joined the Atlantic Council in October 2013 to help launch the center, which, with Marczak’s co-leadership, has become known for its insight on the transforming Latin America. He has led work on trade and commerce; China-Latin America, including groundbreaking insight on China’s currency; US-Cuba relations; regional energy transformations; and the Pacific Alliance, in which he co-authored a May 2016 report on alliance integration. With the Inter-American Development Bank, he recently oversaw a fifteen-country effort that led to the December 2016 publication of Latin America and the Caribbean 2030: Future Scenarios, of which he was the lead author. Marczak leads the new Northern Triangle Security and Economic Opportunity Task Force. He frequently publishes in major media outlets, and provides English- and Spanish-language commentary on political and economic issues. He is a lecturer in International Affairs at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Marczak has more than fifteen years of expertise in Latin American policy leadership and analysis, with a long track record of working with high-level policymakers and private-sector leaders to build consensus on some of the region’s top challenges. He began his career in the US House of Representatives.