Actionable Intelligence you can trust™ is the best insurance against uninformed risk-taking.
Profitable and safe operations in Latin America, from Mexico to Argentina, demand current, in-country, fact-based knowledge that meets the client’s specific needs and objectives.This is what Latin Intelligence Corporation (LIC) delivers: actionable and verifiable intelligence analysis of political, economic, cultural, and regulatory risks that affect profitable and safe performance in the region.
We verify our findings and assessments with decision-makers in private industry, government officials, and representative sectors of the general public in Latin America. This ensures the analyses we deliver and the recommendations we make are knowledge-based, timely, and specific to the client’s needs and objectives.
We give our clients the knowledge they need to qualify opportunities and understand regional risks, prepare for them, and increase their probability of success and the safety and security of their operations, while ameliorating the risks they might face.
We don’t recycle reports. Each client receives the intelligence and analysis he or she needs as specified in clearly stated deliverables. We deliver on deadline, and on budget.
We go in, do the work, and get out.
Our clients are intelligence and security companies, consulting firms, a cross-section of private industry, financial institutions, investment and capital management firms, and departments and agencies of the U.S. Government.
Dr. MARIA VELEZ DE BERLINER
Maria Velez de Berliner is a U.S. citizen who has a Secret Security Clearance with the U.S. Department of Defense.
She is a recognized subject-matter expert on the identification and analysis of political, economic, cultural, and regulatory risks in Latin America. Her expertise qualified her to be an Instructor on Latin America at the U.S. Air Force Special Operations School.
Dr. Velez de Berliner has consulted on risk identification, security, industrial safety, and the consequences of in-country regulations on business performance and policy results with: PETROBRAS; PDVSA; CVRD; COSIPA; PEMEX; Loral Skynet; Booz Allen Hamilton; ECOPETROL; EMBRATEL; PetroEcuador; CODELCO; USIMINAS; Repsol/YPF; iJET International; Gerson Lehrman Group; and, departments and agencies of the U.S. Government.
Her analyses of economic and political conditions in Latin America and the risks they might create appear in: The Harvard Business Review Brasil; The Harvard Business Review Latin America; The Latin America Advisor; The Latin America Advisor-Energy Edition; Location International (London); and Transnational Organized Crime (London).
She was the featured analyst on India in Latin America on Bloomberg Reporte Financiero, and on Security Threats in Latin America on International Investor.
She is often quoted in: América Economía; Satellite News; Via Satellite; Bloomberg News; Latin Business Chronicle; The Miami Herald; The Houston Chronicle; TradeNumbers Magazines; Al Día (Philadelphia); The Pittsburgh Post Gazette; Your Money (Lima); and El Nuevo Día (Puerto Rico). Ms. Velez de Berliner received a Doctor of Law Honoris Causa from Lake Forest College (Illinois) for her contributions to Security and Intelligence, Political Science, and International Relations.
Maria Velez de Berliner receiving Doctorate of Laws Honoris Causa awarded to her by Lake Forest College for her contributions to the fields of international trade, security, and intelligence, May 2008
She is a Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Lake Forest College and has a Master’s degree with Honors in International Relations, with specialization in international security, from the University of Pittsburgh.
She was a Presidential Management Intern, and, in 2002, the Governor of Pennsylvania named her one of Pennsylvania’s Best 50 Women in Business.
She serves on the Board of Advisors of the Center for Latin American Studies of the University of Pittsburgh. She is a member of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA), and a member of the Corporate Circle of the Inter-American Dialogue, both in Washington DC.
Dr. Maria Velez de Berliner and Dr. Richard Dye, Lake Forest College, May 2008
Representative Client List
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- U.S. Institute for Defense Analysis
- U.S. National Technology Transfer Center (USA)
- Loral Skynet (USA)
- iJET Intelligent Risk Systems, Inc. (USA)
- Reality Mobile, LLC (USA)
- GLG Councils (USA)
- Open Source International, Inc., now
Open Source Intelligence Division, Radiance Technologies. Inc. (USA) - Martlin Management, LLC (USA)
- Johnstown Area Regional Industries (JARI) (USA)
- Innovative Technologies Group (USA)
- KSD Diesel (USA)
- Biofreeze International (USA)
- Instronic Instrumentos de Testes, S.A (Brazil)
- Safety Instruments, Ltda. (Colombia)
- DEGSO International (Ecuador)
- CLASECOLDEX (Colombia)