We drive regulatory, legal and environmental transformation in Latin America
Our story
The name is no coincidence. Nalanda was the world's first great university, founded in India in the 5th century. It brought together the brightest minds from Asia—and beyond—to produce knowledge and disseminate it across the continent. That image—intellectual rigor at the service of a region—is precisely what we set out to build for Latin America.
Nalanda Analytica was founded in 2020 out of a shared conviction among its co-founders: that the region has transformative potential that can be unlocked with the right institutions and policies. Educated at the world's top universities and with decades of experience in government, international organizations, and the private sector throughout Latin America, we created a firm that didn't exist before: one that combines analytical depth, strategic vision, and operational capacity to make things happen in highly complex environments.
We operate through a network of experts in each country of the region - not as correspondents, but as top-level collaborators with whom we have been working for years.
Our Approach
The problems our clients face—trade associations, governments, and companies in critical sectors—rarely have a single dimension. They are simultaneously technical, legal, political, and reputational. That's why we don't organize ourselves as a law firm, a conventional consultancy, or a think tank. We are all three at once, when the problem demands it.
This way of working stems from three convictions.
Designing better solutions requires recognizing one's own biases and approaching problems from multiple perspectives: not only from technical expertise, but also incorporating participation, competence, and resilience as central dimensions of the analysis.
The effectiveness of any regulatory or legal response requires a continuous review of the technical, economic, and governance paradigms that underpin it. Frameworks become outdated; problems do not.
And that the development of Latin America ultimately depends on institutions and policies capable of responding intelligently and promptly to the real needs of its population.
These convictions guide both the design of a regulatory reform, and the facilitation of co-creation spaces between actors in conflict over resources such as water, or an intervention before high courts.