María Pérez

Executive Director of Leadership Initiatives at the Aspen Institute’s Center for Leadership, where she oversees strategic planning, operations, and partnerships. She previously led work in Aspen’s Energy & Environment Program and spent over a decade at the United Nations, including as Deputy Chief of Staff at ECLAC.

The Aspen Institute Frames Leadership as Dialogue Across Difference

In a 75th-anniversary institutional statement, the Aspen Institute presents leadership as a discipline of listening, convening and acting across difference. Its executives argue that progress begins with people: dialogue builds common ground and trust, and that trust can be turned toward work on economic opportunity, energy and climate challenges, institutions and rising generations. President and chief executive Dan Porterfield closes the case as an invitation to “ignite human potential” and create new possibilities for a better world.

The Aspen InstituteJun 8, 20265 min read