We know the region because that’s where we come from. We work with commitment and dedication, always at the forefront of solutions to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Lawrence “Larry” Sacks is a foreign affairs and international development executive with 25 years of U.S. government experience, primarily focused on Latin America and the Caribbean. A career minister for the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), he has advised governments, civil society, and the private sector across the region on efforts to spur economic growth, reduce poverty, improve citizen security, deter unregulated migration, and secure development financing. He is also experienced in organizing humanitarian responses to man-made or natural disasters.
Mr. Sacks has worked with the U.S. Congress, the White House, and the U.S. State Department to shape U.S. development policy and implement it effectively across the Americas. He has pursued alliances and value-based partnerships with the region’s governments, successfully executing cooperation between the United States and Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and multiple island nations in the Caribbean.
Mr. Sacks also has broad experience in media relations with U.S.-based and Latin American news outlets. He has been a frontline spokesperson for issues ranging from the Colombian peace process to connecting rural conflict zones to commercial markets, the economic and social integration of Venezuelan migrants, crime and violence prevention in Central America, rule of law in Mexico, and private-capital mobilization in support of public-private partnerships across Latin America and the Caribbean.
Mr. Sacks holds a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts with honors from the University of Texas at Austin and a master’s in international affairs from Columbia University.
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