Juan Manuel Santos Calderon is OPHI's Inaugural MPI Ambassador. Juan Manuel Santos served as President of Colombia for two terms (2010-2014 and 2014-2018) and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 for his efforts to end a civil war of more than 50 years in Colombia.

Juan Manuel Santos is the current Chair of The Elders and author of The Battle Against Poverty, a book that documents Colombia’s successful experience reducing multidimensional poverty after the adoption of the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) as an official national measurement. Juan Manuel Santos is the founder of the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) with the Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen.   

Since his presidency, Juan Manuel Santos  has been Angelopoulos Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School; Visiting Professor of development at Oxford University; George Ball Visiting Professor at Columbia University; Special Professor at Universidad Nacional de Colombia; and, Senior Policy Fellow and distinguished Visiting Professor at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He is the founder of the Compaz Foundation, a non-profit organization to promote peacebuilding in Colombia.  

Luis Guillermo Solís is an MPI Ambassador in recognition of his use of the MPI to reduce poverty in Costa Rica. Luis Guillermo Solís was the 47th President of the Republic of Costa Rica from 2014 to 2018. As a diplomat, Luis Guillermo Solís was the Costa Rican Ambassador at large for Central American affairs, Director General for Policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and representative of the Ibero American General Secretariat for Central America and Haiti. 

Luis Guillermo Solís is a retired full professor of History and Political Science at the University of Costa Rica, where he also served as chair of the Central American graduate program on Political Science and Associate Dean of the School of Social Sciences. He is the author or co-author of twelve books and fifty articles on History, Politics and International Relations of Latin and Central America. He was a Fulbright Scholar, and an Associate Research Fellow and Director of the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University.  

Gonzalo Hernández Licona is the Inaugural MPI Champion and Director of the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN). He was formerly the Executive Secretary of the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL) in Mexico, which was responsible for evaluating social development programmes and measuring poverty nationally. He was previously the Head of Evaluation and Monitoring at the Ministry of Social Development in Mexico. 

Between 2017 and 2019 Gonzalo Hernández Licona was the author, together with 14 scientists of the 2019 Global Development Sustainable Report for the United Nations. He was a full-time Chair Professor at the Autonomous Institute of Technology of Mexico (ITAM) in the Economy Department from 1991–1992 and 1996–2002. He has taught Development Economics at ITAM since 2003. In 2025, he published a handbook How to Use National MPIs as a Policy Tool: From Metrics to Policy with UNDP.