Biography

Jonathan Fantini-Porter is CEO of an economic development corporation between organizations in the United States and emerging markets in Latin and Central America. The Partnership for Central America has facilitated $5.2B in Foreign Direct Investment to build integrated supply chains through a public-private partnerships.

Fantini-Porter previously held roles in the public, private, and social sectors. At McKinsey, he advised governments and businesses on geopolitical risk, trade facilitation, and development in infrastructure and energy in Europe, Latin America, and EMEA. He served on the Presidential Transition Team of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as an advisor on trade and migration. Fantini-Porter previously held numerous roles in the U.S. government, including homeland security aide in the White House during the Obama Administration; senior congressional aide in the U.S. Congress; and as a chief of staff in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security where he oversaw management operations of an agency with a $6 billion budget and 22,000 personnel in 48 countries.

Fantini-Porter has served on advisory and philanthropic bodies of the World Economic Forum, the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, USA for UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and the Brookings Institution, among others.

Fantini-Porter is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Georgetown University and was selected as an Eisenhower Fellow. He was born in Canada and raised in Los Angeles, California by a first-generation refugee from Latin America and is trilingual.