Guillermo Abaracon

Guillermo Abaracon is the Founding-President of the International Leadership Forum of the Americas (ILFA).

Early years
Abaracon was born in Uruguay but grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil due to his father’s career with the World Health Organization (WHO). He attended university in Uruguay, where he obtained a degree in Law. Abaracon then went on to obtained advanced degrees from France’s Universite de la Sorbonne and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG).

Later years
After arriving at Cambridge, Massachusetts Abaracon was invited by the Dean of the KSG to join a select group, the “Global Governance Initiative”, as a representative of Latin American countries. The group included some of the most promising leaders. At that time he was also member of the Harvard’s KSG Council for International Development. Currently he is member of the KSG’s Dean’s Councils. In the late 1990s Abaracon was invited to join the World Economic Forum’s “Leaders of Tomorrow”. He has lectured among other institutions in different Ivy League Universities in the US, Université Laval, Quebec, in Canada, INSEAD, in France, London School of Economics, England. Also, in such capacity he was invited in Latin America at the “Fundação Getulio Vargas”, in Brazil, Mexico’s “Tecnológico de Monterrey”, UNAD Colombia. Abaracon is fluent in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.