The Atlantic Council has announced a $25-million gift from American philanthropist and businesswoman Adrienne Arsht to endow a nonpartisan center focused on Latin America.

Launched in 2013 with annual funding from Arsht, the Latin America Center works to advance innovative policy perspectives that challenge conventional wisdom about the region’s direction and illustrate why Latin America and the Caribbean matter for the world. In recognition of her longtime support, the center will be named the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center (AALAC).

AALAC focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean’s strategic role in a global context with a priority on pressing political, economic, and social issues that define the trajectory of the region. To that end, the center advances a global vision through its programming, including a focus on Venezuela’s multidimensional crisis, Central American prosperity, U.S.-Mexico ties, China in Latin America, Colombia’s future, a changing Brazil, Caribbean development, the evolving shifts of commerce, energy resources, and post-COVID prosperity.

“We are grateful to Adrienne for this generous gift, which ensures that our impact-driven work on this strategically important region continues for generations to come,” said Atlantic Council president and CEO Frederick Kempe. “Over the past nine years, the Latin America team has worked to integrate the region more fully into the transatlantic community by fostering a new era of partnership and action among political, business, and opinion leaders of Latin America, Europe, and the United States.”

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