LEADERSHIP IS NOT A TITLE
It is a decision to author the future.
BeNeXT Global was founded on a single premise: that the future of the hemisphere will be authored by those who build it. Not by those who comment on it, predict it, or critique it — but by those who create living institutions, real projects, and built realities that outlast their authors.
For over a decade, BeNeXT has designed the architecture through which project authors engage institutional thresholds across borders. The convenings are not conferences. They are incubation environments where Legacy Projects meet diplomatic access, academic rigor, and cross-border collaboration.
WHERE THRESHOLDS ARE CROSSED
BeNeXT convenings operate within institutions whose history and architecture amplify the work of project authors.
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.
Home to the Legacy Architects program. Georgetown's academic rigor and diplomatic access provide the architecture where Legacy Projects are formalized as institutional realities.
Ciudad del Saber
Panama City, Panama
An international campus dedicated to innovation and hemispheric development. The City of Knowledge brings together international organizations, research centers, and accelerators under one threshold.
Universidad Mondragón
Querétaro, México
Mondragón's cooperative model — born in the Basque Country and extended to Mexico — offers an architecture where social enterprise meets institutional development.
Centro Histórico
Mexico City, México
The cultural and institutional heart of Mexico City. Convenings in the Centro Histórico place project authors within centuries of hemispheric institutional architecture.
Institutional Direction
Héctor H. López
Founder & Board President
Héctor H. López founded BeNeXT Global in 2012 to design hemispheric leadership architecture. Under his direction, BeNeXT has convened project authors from 30+ countries, mobilized $28M+ in project capital, and established institutional collaborations with the OAS, Smithsonian, Georgetown University, and diplomatic missions across the Americas. He remains the institutional leader across the BeNeXT, Futuro, and NeXT architecture.
Alistair Coll Corona
Executive Director
Alistair Coll Corona is a former FUTURO project author who now serves as Executive Director of BeNeXT Global. His trajectory from project author to institutional leadership reflects the generational pipeline BeNeXT was designed to build.
Three Institutions. One Architecture.
BeNeXT Global
BeNeXT Global designs the institutional architecture — identifying project authors, designing convenings, and building the thresholds where leadership meets authorship.
Futuro
Futuro is the living organization of project authors. It convenes, retains, and grows the community born from BeNeXT convenings across the hemisphere.
NeXT
NeXT is the credentialing and certification body. It credentials the institutional competencies that project authors develop through convenings and fieldwork.
Institutional Timeline
BeNeXT Global founded. First cohort of project authors convened.
First multi-city convening. Institutional collaboration with universities across the Americas.
Georgetown University collaboration established. Legacy Architects program launched.
OAS institutional recognition. G20 sideline convenings initiated.
Digital convening architecture developed. Hemispheric reach expanded.
Smithsonian collaboration. 500+ project authors across 30 countries.
BeNeXT Fellows track launched. $28M+ in Legacy Project capital mobilized.
The architects of this work.
The leaders in this ledger have shaped BeNeXT at every level. Some have keynoted FUTURO convenings. Others have mentored project authors, collaborated on institutional initiatives, or opened diplomatic thresholds that made this architecture possible. They are ambassadors, university presidents, policy architects, and cultural producers from across the hemisphere. Each has contributed to the institutional gravity that defines this work.
Raul Garcia
United States of AmericaFr. Pedro Rivas, OAR
Dominican RepublicVince Perez
United States of AmericaLegislator | Texas Representative, Texas Legislature
Diego Muñiz
United States of AmericaProducer & Audio Engineer, RMS
Carlos Paz
United States of AmericaChief of Staff, US Representative Jimmy Gomez (CA-34), US Congress
Karen Gaytán
United States of AmericaEmmy Award Winning Filmaker, Director & Producer
Marco A. Davis
United States of AmericaPresident & CEO, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute
Analysse Escobar
United States of AmericaAdriana Muñiz Lopez
United States of AmericaFounder , NeXT
Jose Luis Aguirre, MD
United States of AmericaFounder | Medikah Health
Alan Tulos
United States of AmericaConsultant, Deloitte
Dr. Andrew Hamsher
United States of AmericaFounder, NeXT
Juan Luis Contreras
Dominican RepublicConsultant
Getsemani Yañez
United States of AmericaAnalyst, US Airforce