Hudson Institute
Daniel Batlle is an experienced professional specializing in Latin American and Caribbean policy, currently serving as an Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute since March 2023. Prior roles include Managing Director for Latin America & the Caribbean at ICSC, where strategic direction and leadership for the commercial real estate and retail industry were provided, and Director of Business Development at CG/LA Infrastructure, Inc. overseeing global business initiatives. Experience also encompasses international business development at Marq Energie, strategic consulting, senior advisory roles at USAID focusing on development portfolios, and policy advising during tenure at the U.S. Department of State. Additionally, a background in democratic governance initiatives in Latin America was established at Freedom House, complemented by legislative policy support as a Senior Legislative Assistant. Daniel holds an MBA from the University of Maryland and a B.A. in Political Science from Wheaton College.
Hudson Institute
Hudson Institute is a non-partisan policy research organization dedicated to innovative research and analysis that promotes global security, prosperity, and freedom. Hudson Institute challenges conventional thinking and helps manage strategic transitions to the future through interdisciplinary and collaborative studies in defense, international relations, economics, culture, science, technology, and law. Through publications, conferences and policy recommendations, we seek to guide global leaders in government and business. Since our founding in 1961 by the futurist Herman Kahn, Hudson’s perspective has been uniquely future-oriented and optimistic. Our research has stood the test of time in a world dramatically transformed by the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of China, and the advent of radicalism within Islam. Because Hudson sees the complexities within societies, we focus on the often-overlooked interplay among culture, demography, technology, markets, and political leadership. Our broad-based approach has, for decades, allowed us to present well-timed recommendations to leaders in government and business, domestically as well as abroad. Hudson Institute has grown steadily-both in prestige and resources-from its origins in Croton-on-Hudson, to its tenure in Indianapolis, and now as a leading international policy organization with offices in Washington and New York. In the 1970s, Hudson’s scholars helped turn the world away from the no-growth policies of the Club of Rome; in the early 1990s, we helped the newly-liberated Baltic nations become booming market economies; at home, we helped write the pioneering Wisconsin welfare reform law that became the model for successful national welfare reform in the mid-1990s. Today, as part of our research agenda, we are developing programs of political and economic reform to transform the Muslim world.