Bio - Felipe Ante – ACE Louisiana

Felipe Ante

Institutional Affairs Coordinator

University San Francisco of Quito

Biography:

Felipe Ante holds a BA in International Relations with a minor in Political Science and History at Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. He also holds an MBA course certificate at USFQ as well. He worked at a strategy and political analysis consultancy firm with public and private institutions. In this part of his professional career, Felipe specialized in developing legislative strategy and its execution. Later he worked as Political Advisor of the Social Development Minister and specifically worked in the political strategy design and execution for a bill that included housewives into the social security system in Ecuador. He is currently the Institutional Affairs Coordinator and Chief of Staff to the USFQ President´s Office and is Co-Director of the Model United Nations Program at USFQ. His responsibilities include the relations with the private sector in order to develop Research and Development for innovation and technology especially.

Nicole Griensewic

Executive Director

Region Nine Development Commission in Minnesota

Biografy:

Griensewic has served as Executive Director of Region Nine Development Commission since 2012. As executive director, Griensewic has made it a priority to foster collaboration and engagement by sharing Region Nine’s story both regionally and globally. Griensewic is an active board and committee member for multiple organizations throughout Minnesota. Griensewic is the immediate past President of the Greater Minnesota Partnership, and is the first female to chair the Executive Committee for the University of Minnesota’s Center for Transportation Studies, where she served as chair of the Governance Committee. Griensewic also served as secretary of Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota’s Governing Board of Directors and chaired the Governance Committee and currently serves as an advisory board member for South Central College’s Center for Agriculture. She serves on the executive committee for the MACS Board, Minnesotans for the American Community Survey Board of Directors and represents the Midwest on the National Assoc. of Development Orgs.’s (NADO) Board of Directors.

Griensewic is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and has completed course work through Harvard’s Kennedy School’s Executive Education. She received the 2017 Outstanding Recent Alumnus Award from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Her professional background includes extensive private sector and non-profit leadership experience.