Eugenio Fernández-Dussaq is a practitioner-scholar and organizational strategist whose work sits at the intersection of institutional design, values formation, and leadership development. He brings to the NPHI Board a rare combination of governance experience, Latin American roots, and a career-long preoccupation with a single question: what makes institutions endure for the right reasons?

Born with Cuban heritage and shaped by deep ties to Guatemala, Eugenio has spent decades working across sectors in Latin America and the United States. His connection to NPH reflects that geography personally: Guatemala is not an abstraction to him, and the children NPH serves there are not statistics. They are neighbors in the fullest sense of the word.

On the board, Eugenio contributes expertise in organizational governance, strategic planning, and institutional culture. He brings particular focus to questions of financial sustainability and mission integrity—the tension between what organizations say they stand for and what their structures actually reward.

Professionally, Eugenio serves as Adjunct Professor of Organizational Behavior at NewU University in Washington, DC, where he teaches and researches how institutions sustain—or lose—their founding purpose over time. He is also an advisor to the World Union of Jesuit Alumni and the Latin American and Caribbean Union of Jesuit Alumni. He is completing a book, Who Do We Serve, which applies five centuries of Jesuit institutional history to the challenges facing mission-driven organizations today.

His spouse, Claudia Escobar, serves as Guatemala’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States. Together, they maintain a shared commitment to the institutions—legal, educational, and humanitarian—on which the region’s most vulnerable populations depend.