Roger Santodomingo is ANDE’s Head of Global Communications. He leads strategy and manages a team that works across the network’s eight chapters and multiple time zones to advance the small and growing businesses at the heart of ANDE’s mission. Since 2023, he has built ANDE’s communications into a strategic editorial function, most visibly through our global campaigns and the network’s green-growth and climate work, where he leads integrated storytelling around Climate Week NYC, COP, and Aspen Ideas Climate. Roger is in charge of managing internal, member and stakeholder communications and works with our in-house PR agency and external partners to leverage ANDE’s positioning in the media. He spearheads with Aspen International Partners the Aspen Palabras initiative on global literature, technology and translations.
A journalist and entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience across Latin America, the U.K., and the U.S., Roger has spent his career translating complex ideas — economic, political, technological, and environmental — into stories that move audiences and decisions. His work has spanned the BBC World Service in London and NTN24/Telemundo International, where he was executive producer and editorial partner to Moisés Naím on the Emmy-winning Efecto Naím (200+ episodes). In Caracas, he co-founded the daily newspaper TalCual with the Venezuelan intellectual and statesman Teodoro Petkoff — work recognized with Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar National Prize for Journalism.
His commitment to human rights and press freedom — forged in his native Venezuela — continues to shape how he thinks about the conditions in which entrepreneurs, communities, and free societies thrive. He is the author of four nonfiction books and writes CICERO, a bilingual Substack that weaves classical wisdom with contemporary disorders.
Roger holds an MSc in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics (LSE), where he was a Chevening Scholar, and a MSc in Social Communications from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV).
When he isn’t championing the stories of developing entrepreneurs, you’ll find him writing another book, underwater on a scuba dive, or on the karate mat.