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The 42 members, and NITA’s 20

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Latin America · 42 members

The five agencies this study is about. Rosters verified 27 August 2026.

Member	Agency	Position	Classification	Confidence	Sources	Rationale
Patricio Rey Sommer	Santiago	President (Presidente del Directorio)	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2 3 4 5 6	Why this classification Career is in general business management (P&G, Budnik, construction-industry trade association) and appointed regional-government administration (Seremi, Intendente), plus leadership of a diversified infrastructure/connectivity company. His infrastructure work (fiber-optic cable, urban regeneration) is not transit-specific, and his government posts were non-elected administrative appointments rather than transit operations roles, so he does not meet the bar for Transit Ops/Management. The Intendente role, though a top regional government post, is an appointed (not elected) position under Chilean law, so Elected Official does not apply either.
Nicole Keller Flaten	Santiago	Vice President (Vicepresidenta del Directorio)	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2 3 4 5	Why this classification Core professional background is journalism/strategic communications, plus ministerial chief-of-staff roles — not direct experience managing transit operations or capital projects. Her 2018–2022 tenure as Metro Vice President is board governance experience rather than operational transit management, and her committee leadership there (Sustainability) was a board oversight function, not a line role running transit service. Classified as Other Management/Policy consistent with the finance/law/comms/policy 'complementary skills' bucket.
Patricio Pérez Gómez	Santiago	Director	Transit ops	High	1 2 3 4 5	Why this classification Directly meets the highest bar in this category: he ran EFE (the national state railway company) as General Manager, led the Santiago-region transit regulatory/operating body (DTPM) as Director, and consulted at Steer Davies Gleave, a specialist transport-planning firm. This is career-defining, direct transit operations and management experience, not incidental engineering credentials.
Rodrigo Troncoso Olchevskaia	Santiago	Director	Transit opsjudgment call	Medium	1 2 3 4 5 6	Why this classification His entire academic specialization is public-transit economics — bus-industry cost and efficiency studies, transit fare policy, and urban transport modeling — which is functionally equivalent to the 'transit engineering professor' carve-out in the classification rules, even though his formal training is in economics rather than engineering.Judgment call. An economist rather than an engineer, but his entire research output is transit economics — bus-industry cost and efficiency, fare policy, urban transport modelling. Treated as equivalent to the transit-academic carve-out in the classification rules.
María Cecilia Guzmán Ossa	Santiago	Director	Other mgmt / policy	Medium	1 2 3 4 5	Why this classification Career is entirely in cultural-sector management and organizational leadership (theater/cultural administration, a cultural-management consultancy), with an executive-education (MBA-equivalent) credential. No transit, engineering, or transportation-planning background; fits the general-management 'complementary skills' bucket rather than any of the other four categories.
Cristina Torres Delgado	Santiago	Director	Other mgmt / policy	Medium	1 2 3 4 5	Why this classification Entire career is in law, public budget/finance administration (DIPRES), regulatory policy, and academic public-policy leadership — no transit-specific experience. Squarely fits the 'lawyers, finance executives, public policy experts' description of Other Management/Policy.
Jorge Hermann Anguita	Santiago	Director	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2 3 4	Why this classification Career is in macroeconomic policy analysis, government studies-division leadership (Economy, Labor ministries), academic economics, and private consulting — general economic/policy expertise with no transit-specific experience, matching the finance/economics wing of Other Management/Policy.
Milton Frasson	São Paulo	Presidente do Conselho de Administração (Board Chair)	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2	Why this classification Frasson has spent his career at transit-adjacent organizations (CPTM, CPOS), but his roles were administrative and financial rather than operational. He did not manage transit operations, engineering, or capital projects directly; his expertise is finance and administration applied to transport companies.
Antonio Julio Castiglioni Neto	São Paulo	Diretor-Presidente e Conselheiro (CEO and Board Member)	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2	Why this classification Legal background with executive experience in port management, water utility governance, and regulatory agencies, not transit operations. His expertise is public law, concessions, and privatization—management/policy skills applied to infrastructure generally, not transit-specific operations.
Daniel Rodrigues Aldigueri	São Paulo	Conselheiro de Administração (Board Member)	Transit opsjudgment call	High	1 2 3	Why this classification Aldigueri's actual career track has been in ports and civil-aviation regulation (ANAC, Ministério de Portos e Aeroportos, Porto de Fortaleza port authority), not urban rail or bus transit operations or capital projects. Under the rule that general engineers do not qualify as Transit Ops/Management unless they worked in transit, his professional experience places him in Other Management/Policy.Judgment call. Holds a doctorate in Transportation and a master's in Transportation Engineering, but has spent his career in ports and civil aviation rather than urban transit. Counted as transit expertise on the strength of the transport training and infrastructure record; a stricter reading of 'worked in transit' would place him in Other Management/Policy.
Fabiano Martins de Oliveira	São Paulo	Conselheiro de Administração (Board Member)	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2 3	Why this classification Although he holds a board seat at SPTrans, that is an oversight/governance role rather than a transit operations or capital-projects management role, and his own career is in municipal tax auditing and budget/finance administration. His expertise is public finance and administration applied across several city agencies, not direct transit operations management.
Mauro Antônio Gumiero Voltarelli	São Paulo	Conselheiro de Administração (Board Member)	Transit opsjudgment call	High	1 2 3	Why this classification SPTrans's own organizational chart places Voltarelli's unit — the Diretoria de Administração e de Infraestrutura (DA) — as a directorate distinct from the Diretoria de Operações (which runs bus service) and the Diretoria de Planejamento de Transporte (which handles transit planning/capital projects). DA itself is composed of a Superintendência Financeira, a Superintendência Administrativa, and a Superintendência de Infraestrutura — i.e., it is fundamentally a finance/procurement/corporate-support directorate that also houses infrastructure-asset administration, not the unit that delivers bus service or executes transit capital projects. Combined with his broader career (private transport-company ownership, vehicle-licensing administration, management consulting), his primary expertise reads as general business/financial administration rather than hands-on transit operations or capital-project management.Judgment call. Director of Administration, Finance and Infrastructure at SPTrans, São Paulo's bus authority, and briefly its acting president in 2025. SPTrans's own org chart puts his directorate apart from both Operations and Transport Planning, which argues for a back-office reading; holding a directorship and the acting presidency of a transit operator argues the other way. Counted as transit expertise.
Wagner Fajardo Pereira	São Paulo	Conselheiro Representante dos Empregados (Employee Representative Board Member)	Labor	High	1 2	Why this classification Explicitly designated employee/union representative seat on the board, as required by Brazilian state-enterprise law. Wagner is a career Metrô employee and a Metro Workers Union leader, confirming the mandated employee-representative classification.
Walkyria Aparecida Augusto	São Paulo	Conselheira Independente e Coordenadora do Comitê de Auditoria Estatutário (Independent Board Member and Statutory Audit Committee Coordinator)	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2	Why this classification Finance, audit, risk, and compliance executive with no transit background; her role is explicitly audit/risk oversight, the same finance-governance profile as her predecessor Carlos Roberto de Albuquerque Sá in the prior board version.
Alessandra de Almeida Figueiredo	São Paulo	Conselheira de Administração (Board Member)	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2	Why this classification Corporate/business lawyer with no transit background; her expertise is corporate law, governance advisory, and business law — non-transit professional skills.
André da Silva Curcio	São Paulo	Conselheiro de Administração (Board Member)	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2	Why this classification Career state tax-administration and judicial official (state Treasury inspectorate, tax tribunal judge); legal and fiscal-policy expertise, with no transit background.
Eugênia Cristina Cleto Marolla	São Paulo	Conselheira de Administração (Board Member)	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2	Why this classification Career state attorney and gubernatorial-office legal/policy advisor specializing in public-service concessions, PPPs, and public-administration governance; law and policy expertise, not transit operations.
Fabiano Maia Pereira	São Paulo	Conselheiro de Administração (Board Member)	Other mgmt / policy	Medium	1 2	Why this classification Public and corporate finance executive (state Treasury, federal government-relations, CFO/CEO of a federal guarantee-fund agency); finance and governance expertise, with no transit background.
Andrés Julián Rendón Cardona	Medellín	Governor of Antioquia	Elected official	High	1 2 3	Why this classification Currently serving as the elected Governor of Antioquia (2024–2027 term, confirmed still in office as of August 2026). Sits on the board in his ex-officio capacity as governor.
Federico Gutiérrez Zuluaga	Medellín	Mayor of the District of Medellín (ex officio board member)	Elected official	High	1 2 3	Why this classification Currently serving as elected Mayor of Medellín (2024–2027 term, confirmed still in office). Sits on the board in his capacity as mayor, an ex-officio position tied to his elected office. Note: whether he currently holds the board's presidency specifically was not re-verified this cycle (see notes) — his ex-officio board membership itself is confirmed.
Luis Fernando Agudelo Henao	Medellín	Director of the Administrative Department of Planning, Department of Antioquia	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2	Why this classification Appointed government planning official, not elected. Background is in public accounting, civic-accountability work, and public administration/governance policy — not transit operations. Consistent with the classification applied to the two prior holders of this same ex-officio seat.
Luz Ángela González Gómez	Medellín	Director of the Administrative Department of Planning, District of Medellín	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2 3	Why this classification Appointed government planning official, not elected. Background is in public administration, procurement, and urban-development agency management — general administrative/management experience, not direct transit-operations management. Consistent with the classification applied to the prior holder of this same ex-officio seat.
Sebastián Hinestroza Arango	Medellín	Independent Member (Presidential Appointee)	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2 3	Why this classification Construction and infrastructure entrepreneur/business administrator focused on road/highway paving projects, not transit systems. His experience is in general civil infrastructure and paving contracting, not rail/bus operations management.
Liliana Yanneth Bohórquez Avendaño	Medellín	Representative of the Ministry of Transport	Transit opsjudgment call	Medium	1 2 3	Why this classification Ministry of Transport career civil servant whose specialization and role center on traffic engineering, road-design standards, and road-safety administration rather than direct management of transit operations or capital projects — closer to a general (non-transit) transport-infrastructure engineer under context.md's rule.Judgment call. A civil engineer with ~25 years across Bogotá's mobility secretariat, the national road-safety agency and the Ministry of Transport, who also sits on the board of Metrolínea, Bucaramanga's BRT operator. The case against counting her is that traffic engineering and road safety are not transit operations; the case for is a quarter-century inside transport bodies plus a seat at a transit operator. Counted as transit expertise.
Luis Alexander López Ruíz	Medellín	Representative of the Ministry of Finance	Other mgmt / policy	Medium	1 2	Why this classification Finance professional representing the national Ministry of Finance. No transit operations background — purely a financial/administrative role.
Héctor Ulises García Nieto	Mexico City	President of Consejo de Administración / Secretary of Mobility (SEMOVI)	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2 3	Why this classification Although he heads the mobility secretariat and has transportation policy experience (SETRAVI, SEMOVI), his background is as an economist and political party leader, not as a transit operations manager. His SETRAVI role was in transport regulation/policy, not operations. He never held elected office, so the 'political operative' clause pointing toward Elected Official does not apply to him.
Adrián Rubalcava Suárez	Mexico City	Director General of STC Metro (administrator/executive who reports to and implements resolutions of the Consejo de Administración — see notes: not confirmed as a formal Article 7 voting Council seat, but included here as the agency's chief executive)	Elected officialjudgment call	High	1 2 3 4 5 6	Why this classification Applying the capacity test as primary: he sits on the Council in his capacity as appointed Director General, an executive post held by gubernatorial appointment, not by virtue of any elected office — so he is classified as Other Management/Policy. See classification_note for the conflicting reading.Judgment call. He sits as an appointed director general, not as an officeholder, which would argue for Other Management/Policy. He is counted as an elected official because he was mayor of Cuajimalpa until 2024 and is a career politician, and because this matches how Day treated the same situation — his own data counts former mayors and appointed cabinet officials sitting on US and European boards as elected officials.
César Cravioto Romero	Mexico City	Board Member / Secretary of Government (Secretario de Gobierno)	Elected officialjudgment call	High	1 2 3	Why this classification Applying the capacity test as primary: he sits on the Council ex officio as Secretary of Government, an appointed cabinet post, not by virtue of currently holding elected office — so he is classified as Other Management/Policy. See classification_note for the conflicting reading.Judgment call. A former Morena senator and party faction coordinator now sitting as an appointed cabinet secretary. Counted as an elected official on the same basis as Rubalcava, and consistent with Day's treatment of Berlin's appointed transport senator on the BVG board.
Juan Pablo de Botton Falcón	Mexico City	Board Member / Secretary of Administration and Finance (Secretario de Administración y Finanzas) — this cabinet post absorbed the former Oficial Mayor seat referenced in Article 7 when that office was eliminated in CDMX in 2019 and merged into this secretariat	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2 3	Why this classification Finance and economics professional with extensive experience in federal and city public finance. No transit operations background — expertise is in fiscal policy, banking, and financial management. No elected-office history, so the contested capacity/clause tension does not arise for him.
Raúl Basulto Luviano	Mexico City	Board Member / Secretary of Works and Services (Secretario de Obras y Servicios)	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2 3	Why this classification Architect and public works administrator. His experience is in urban construction and community infrastructure, not transit operations. The Secretary of Works oversees infrastructure broadly, not transit-specific projects.
Martín López Delgado	Mexico City	Board Member / Director General of Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos (STE)	Transit ops	Medium	1 2 3	Why this classification Career transit professional who rose through the ranks of STE (electric transport operator). Has direct operational experience managing trolleybus, Cablebús, and light rail systems. His entire career has been in transit operations.
Daniel Arcos Rodríguez	Mexico City	Board Member / Director General of RTP (Red de Transporte de Pasajeros) — holds the parastatal seat Article 7 labels 'Sistema de Movilidad 1' (RTP's 2016-2019 legal name; see notes for the naming history)	Other mgmt / policy	Low	1 2 3 4 5	Why this classification Classified pending fuller verification. He runs a large public bus operator (RTP), which if his career has been transit-focused would argue for Transit Ops/Management, but no confirmed prior transit-operations career history could be found — provisionally classified as Other Management/Policy per context.md's default treatment of unverified government officials, with Low confidence. This is a change from the March 2026 file, which incorrectly attributed this Article 7 seat to Metrobús's Rosario Castro Escorcia — see notes.
Fernando Espino Arévalo	Mexico City	Union Participant / President of the National Executive Committee, SNTSTC — NOT a formal Article 7 Council seat; participation in Consejo de Administración sessions stems from a 2013-2015 negotiated administrative agreement, not a statutory board membership (see notes)	Labor	High	1 2 3 4 5	Why this classification Explicitly recognized as the union's representative in Consejo de Administración sessions, representing the interests of the 12,400+ STC Metro workers through the SNTSTC, notwithstanding that this is a negotiated participation right rather than an Article 7 statutory seat. His own history of elected office (1991-2015) does not override this — he sits in a designated labor capacity, not as a political appointee, so no classification conflict arises the way it does for Rubalcava/Cravioto.
Federal Representative (SICT)	Mexico City	Board Member / Representative of the Secretaría de Infraestructura, Comunicaciones y Transportes (formerly SCT)	Other mgmt / policy	Low	1	Why this classification Federal government representative on the board. Individual not publicly identified despite targeted searching.
Federal Representative (Banobras)	Mexico City	Board Member / Representative of Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Públicos	Other mgmt / policy	Low	1 2	Why this classification Development bank representative providing financial oversight. Individual not publicly identified despite checking Banobras' own transparency filings.
State of Mexico Representative	Mexico City	Board Member / Representative designated by the State of Mexico Government	Other mgmt / policy	Low	1	Why this classification State government representative. Included because Metro lines serve municipalities in the State of Mexico. Individual not publicly identified.
Javier Ignacio Ibáñez	Buenos Aires	Presidente	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2 3	Why this classification While Ibáñez has held numerous senior public administration roles, none involved direct transit operations or management. His career spans technology (INTI), culture (Teatro Colón), regulatory oversight, and general government management — all outside the transit sector.
Mauro Gastón Alabuenas	Buenos Aires	Vicepresidente	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2 3	Why this classification Alabuenas is a lawyer and public administrator. Although he has spent many years at SBASE, his roles have been in corporate governance and legal oversight rather than transit operations or engineering. His pre-SBASE career was in public space regulation, not transit.
Mario Sebastián Sabugo	Buenos Aires	Director	Other mgmt / policy	Medium	1 2 3	Why this classification Sabugo's public-sector role (Subsecretario de Planeamiento) was general city/urban-environmental planning, not a transit-specific planning post — the city government's transit/mobility planning function sits in a separate Subsecretaría de Planificación de la Movilidad y la Seguridad Vial. His primary career is as an architecture-history academic. No evidence of direct experience managing transit systems, rail/bus operations, or transit capital projects was found, so this does not meet the bar for Transit Ops/Management under the 'general planners don't count unless transit-focused' rule.
Juan Sebastián De Stéfano	Buenos Aires	Director	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2 3	Why this classification De Stéfano's background is in intelligence and legal affairs, with no known transit experience. His appointment appears politically motivated rather than based on transit or management expertise.
Guillermo Seefeld	Buenos Aires	Director	Other mgmt / policy	Medium	1 2 3	Why this classification With the Telerman/Menem-era transport-official background now correctly reattributed away from him, no qualifying transit, finance, law, or other professional/technical credential is documented for Seefeld. He is best characterized as a long-tenured political appointee (PRO party figure) with a private business background (resort ownership) and no confirmed transit-sector expertise, so he defaults to the residual 'Other Management/Policy' bucket used for government appointees lacking any documented transit background — the same default applied to other thinly-documented appointees in this dataset. He has not held elected office, so 'Elected Official' does not apply.
Víctor José Colombano	Buenos Aires	Director Titular	Other mgmt / policyjudgment call	Medium	1 2 3 4	Why this classification Colombano's declared simultaneous roles at the time of appointment — an unspecified-seniority ADIF employee position and an ad-honorem trade-association administrative secretaryship — do not rise to 'significant direct experience managing transit systems, rail/bus operations, or transit capital projects' as required for Transit Ops/Management; the OFIP dictamen itself characterizes the ALAF role as administrative/institutional support with no fixed hours, not operational management. The bulk of his documented career is in party political organizing and public housing/market administration, unrelated to transit. He has not been confirmed to hold elected public office (no listing found on the Honorable Cámara de Diputados de la Nación roster); his 'congresal' role is an internal party position, not an elected legislative seat, so 'Elected Official' does not apply.Judgment call, decided the other way. At appointment he declared an employee post of unspecified seniority at ADIF, the national rail infrastructure agency, and an unpaid administrative secretaryship at a rail trade association. His documented career is party political organising and public housing administration, and the conflict-of-interest filing itself describes the trade-association role as administrative support with no fixed hours. Not counted as transit expertise. Separately: his 'congresal nacional' title is a party congress delegate, not an elected seat, so Elected Official does not apply.

Chicago · NITA · 20 members

The comparison board, verified the same day. Richard Day graded these appointments but did not classify them, so these classifications are Claude's rather than his. The Governor's five appointees were still awaiting Illinois Senate confirmation; each row says where it stands. These members are counted separately and are not part of the 42-member Latin American totals anywhere on this site.

Member	Agency	Position	Classification	Confidence	Sources	Rationale
Bashir Qaasim	Chicago	Director (also Metra board)Announced 21 Aug 2026; pending confirmation by the Illinois Senate, which had no session day between the announcement and 27 Aug 2026.	Other mgmt / policy	Medium	1 2 3 4 5 6	Why this classification A technology and organisational-transformation executive with no transit background. Complementary management skill, which is what this category is for.
Nedra Sims Fears	Chicago	Director (also CTA board)Announced 21 Aug 2026; pending confirmation by the Illinois Senate, which had no session day between the announcement and 27 Aug 2026.	Other mgmt / policyjudgment call	Medium	1 2 3 4 5 6	Why this classification Classified on primary background, which is community development finance rather than advocacy. The classification rules explicitly warn against reading a finance executive who works in community development as a community advocate.She currently leads a neighbourhood community organisation, and Day classifies nonprofit and community-organisation heads as Community Advocate. Counted here on her finance career instead. Adjudicated by Steffany Bahamon.Under Day's applied practice: Community advocate — Inferred from Day's treatment of comparable members; he did not classify her.
Nirali Shah	Chicago	DirectorAnnounced 21 Aug 2026; pending confirmation by the Illinois Senate, which had no session day between the announcement and 27 Aug 2026.	Other mgmt / policyjudgment call	Medium	1 2 3 4	Why this classification Procurement and contract administration are back-office functions. Her CTA roles are not described as executive, and their seniority could not be established.She worked inside a transit agency, and Day counts senior transit-agency employment as transit expertise even in non-operational roles. Her CTA positions are not described as senior, so she is counted as management here. Adjudicated by Steffany Bahamon.Under Day's applied practice: Transit ops — Inferred from Day's treatment of comparable members; he did not classify her.
Rosa Ortiz	Chicago	Director (also Pace board)Announced 21 Aug 2026; pending confirmation by the Illinois Senate, which had no session day between the announcement and 27 Aug 2026.	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2 3 4 5 6	Why this classification An urban planner whose practice is housing rather than transit. The rules count urban planners as transit expertise only where the focus is transit. Day classified her the same way in his own data.
Vanessa Uribe	Chicago	DirectorAnnounced 21 Aug 2026; pending confirmation by the Illinois Senate, which had no session day between the announcement and 27 Aug 2026.	Other mgmt / policy	Medium	1 2 3 4 5 6	Why this classification A career in operations, human resources and public administration. Her government posts were appointed rather than elected, so Elected Official does not apply.
Tom Kotarac	Chicago	Director (also CTA board)Confirmed by the Cook County Board, 16 July 2026; seat effective 1 Sept 2026.	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2 3 4 5	Why this classification Transportation policy and regional planning rather than transit operations or capital delivery. Day classified him the same way in his own data.
Diane Williams	Chicago	Director (also Metra board)Confirmed by the Cook County Board, 16 July 2026; seat effective 1 Sept 2026.	Other mgmt / policyjudgment call	High	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8	Why this classification An executive career running a large nonprofit. The Elected Official category covers current or recently-retired officeholders without other qualifying experience; her village trusteeship ended five years ago and sat alongside that executive career.Two readings compete. Sixteen years as an elected trustee could support Elected Official, and running a community-serving nonprofit could support Community Advocate. Counted on her executive record. Adjudicated by Steffany Bahamon.Under Day's applied practice: Community advocate — Inferred from Day's treatment of comparable members; he did not classify her.
Romayne Brown	Chicago	Director (also Metra board)Confirmed by the Cook County Board, 16 July 2026; seat effective 1 Sept 2026.	Transit ops	High	1 2 3 4 5 6	Why this classification Three decades of direct rail operations management at a major transit agency, rising from rail conductor to Vice President of Rail Operations with a $1.3bn budget. The clearest transit-operations credential on the board, and the only one that is unambiguous under either reading of Day's categories. Day classified her the same way in his own data.
Luis Montgomery	Chicago	Director (also Pace board)Confirmed by the Cook County Board, 16 July 2026; seat effective 1 Sept 2026.	Transit opsjudgment call	Medium	1 2 3 4 5	Why this classification A civil engineer whose practice is transportation infrastructure, leading national transportation market development for an infrastructure consultancy. Counted as transit expertise on the engineering background and the transport-sector career.Decided the other way from the strict reading. The rules exclude general civil engineers unless they have worked in transit, and nothing establishes employment at a transit operator — his work is transportation infrastructure consulting rather than running transit. His employer could not be established from any source that also names him as the appointee, so it is recorded as unknown rather than guessed. Adjudicated by Steffany Bahamon.
Rory Hoskins	Chicago	Director (also Pace board)Confirmed by the Cook County Board, 16 July 2026; seat effective 1 Sept 2026. NITA term is five years from 1 Sept 2026.	Elected official	Medium	1 2 3 4 5	Why this classification A sitting mayor. Under the rule settled on 2026-08-27, holding the seat by virtue of an appointment does not exempt a serving politician.
Oswaldo Alvarez	Chicago	Director (also CTA board)Confirmed by the Chicago City Council, 15 July 2026.	Other mgmt / policyjudgment call	High	1 2 3 4 5	Why this classification Policy strategy and large-programme administration, most clearly the statewide census operation. Government-affairs work rather than rider or community advocacy.He heads an organisation representing a demographic group, which is inside the Community Advocate definition, and his census work was coalition-building with community organisations. Counted on his policy and administrative record. Adjudicated by Steffany Bahamon.Under Day's applied practice: Community advocate — Inferred from Day's treatment of comparable members; he did not classify him.
Natasha Jenkins	Chicago	Director (also Pace board)Confirmed by the Chicago City Council, 15 July 2026.	Other mgmt / policyjudgment call	High	1 2 3 4	Why this classification A practising attorney. Her CTA role was in-house legal work, not operations or capital delivery, and her union role was as outside counsel rather than a designated labour seat.Day classifies her as Transit Ops/Management in his own data, on the strength of her CTA employment. Under this site's stated rules a senior attorney at a transit agency is management, not operations. Counted as management, with Day's own call recorded. Adjudicated by Steffany Bahamon.Under Day's applied practice: Transit ops — Day's own published classification of this person.
Dennis Mondero	Chicago	Director (also Metra board)Confirmed by the Chicago City Council, 15 July 2026.	Other mgmt / policyjudgment call	High	1 2 3 4	Why this classification His CTA roles were administrative and executive-staff posts rather than operations or capital delivery, which places him in management under the stated rules.Day classifies him as Transit Ops/Management in his own data. This is the same tension as the Voltarelli call on the Sao Paulo board: a senior back-office role at a transit operator. Counted as management here, with Day's own call recorded. Adjudicated by Steffany Bahamon.Under Day's applied practice: Transit ops — Day's own published classification of this person.
Dee Atkins	Chicago	DirectorConfirmed by the Chicago City Council, 15 July 2026.	Community advocatejudgment call	Medium	1 2 3 4	Why this classification Her entire career is community engagement and social services, with no other profession underneath it. The only member of this board classified as a community advocate.Community Advocate rather than Other Management/Policy. She is a senior nonprofit executive, and the two comparable calls on this board — Nedra Sims Fears and Oswaldo Alvarez — were decided the other way. She is counted as an advocate because, unlike them, there is no separate profession beneath the community work: her whole career is community engagement and social services. She is the board's only community advocate under the headline reading, so this single call carries a headline figure. Adjudicated by Steffany Bahamon.
Lester Barclay	Chicago	Director (also CTA board)Confirmed by the Chicago City Council, 15 July 2026.	Other mgmt / policyjudgment call	High	1 2 3 4 5	Why this classification Classified on primary background, which is three decades of legal practice as a law firm principal.Day classifies him as Community Advocate in his own data. Under this site's stated rules his primary background is the law. Counted as management, with Day's own call recorded. Adjudicated by Steffany Bahamon.Under Day's applied practice: Community advocate — Day's own published classification of this person.
John Noak	Chicago	Director (also Pace board)Appointed by the Will County Executive; no county board confirmation vote was found as of 27 Aug 2026.	Elected official	High	1 2 3 4	Why this classification A sitting mayor of 18 years. Day classified him the same way in his own data.
Gary Gordon	Chicago	Director (also Metra board)Appointed by the Lake County Board Chair, announced 10 June 2026; no county board confirmation vote was found as of 27 Aug 2026.	Other mgmt / policy	High	1 2 3 4 5 6	Why this classification A career public-finance executive. His capital programs role was city-wide rather than transit. Day classified him the same way in his own data.
Brian Sager	Chicago	Director (also Metra board)The appointing official could not be established, and no McHenry County Board confirmation vote was found as of 27 Aug 2026.	Elected official	Medium	1 2 3 4 5 6	Why this classification A sitting county board member and a former mayor of 16 years. Day classified him the same way in his own data, though as a former mayor rather than a current officeholder.
Brian Dahl	Chicago	Director (also Pace board)Confirmed by the Kane County Board; seat effective September 2026.	Laborjudgment call	Medium	1 2 3	Why this classification A building-trades council president, classified on his union leadership. This follows Day, who places union officials on the RTA board in this category even though that board has no designated labour seat.This site's stated rule requires an explicitly designated union seat, and NITA has none, which would place him in Other Management/Policy. Day's applied practice classifies union officials on their background instead, and that reading was adopted here for both readings. Adjudicated by Steffany Bahamon.
David Pileski	Chicago	Director (also Pace board)Approved by the DuPage County Board in mid-July 2026, on the County Board Chair's selection.	Elected official	High	1 2 3 4 5	Why this classification A sitting mayor. His private-sector role in supply chain management is not transit experience.