Juan Carlos Iturregui

Juan Carlos Iturregui is an experienced attorney and entrepreneur who focuses on business, project development, regulatory, and public policy issues in the Americas. He works closely with decision-makers and stakeholders in the US Congress and executive branch, multilateral entities, and private companies in the United States and countries in the Latin America & Caribbean region (LAC) to promote business initiatives, investments, closer hemispheric links, and public-private sector partnerships. He dedicates significant efforts to infrastructure investments in the Caribbean and Latin America, with an emphasis on transport, energy, and renewable power. In tandem, Juan Carlos works with various NGO’s in promoting development and innovative social investments in the LAC region. Juan Carlos is the Vice Chair of the Board at the US Inter-American Foundation (IAF is the USG's grassroots development "lab") and is a former member of the President’s Export Council, the United States top advisory panel on international trade and overseas markets. Juan Carlos joined the George Mason University's Board of Visitors (Trustees) in 2019. He has been a partner or senior director of governmental affairs at three AmLaw-100 law firms over the last 25 years. He is a former fellow of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute and worked in the US Congress for three years.

In 2005, he founded Milan Americas, LLC, in Washington D.C., a business consultancy where he remains the Managing Director. This consulting practice specializes in commercial, regulatory and project development engagements with focus on infrastructure and renewable energy projects in Latin America, the Caribbean and Hispanic markets. He has also had a focus on healthcare where he played a key role in expansion of major US regional healthcare provider into a new marketplace.

During 2019 and until June 2020 Mr. Iturregui has been a Partner, and a Member of the firm’s Government Relations and the Infrastructure & Energy Practices with Nelson Mullins, LLP, Washington, DC office. Nelson Mullins is an Am Law 100 firm with 122 years of operations and with significant presence in Washington, DC and offices in 25 cities across the U.S. From 2007 until 2009, Mr. Iturregui was employed by Denton, LLP, based in Washington, DC, which is a global law firm with significant presence in Washington, DC and offices in 79 cities across 52 countries. From 2003 through 2005 he was with Quinn Gillespie & Associates, in Washington, DC. This is a leading DC bipartisan public policy and communications firm where he was a Director. From 2001 through 2002 he was with Hunton & Williams, LLP in Washington, DC where he was Senior Director of Government and Latin America Affairs. From 1997 through 2000 he was with Verner, Lipfert, Bernard, McPherson & Hand, a Washington, DC based law firm as Senior Attorney and Director for International Affairs.

Mr. Iturregui was awarded a J.D. from The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC and received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.