Beatriz Champagne is executive director of the InterAmerican Heart Foundation, an organization dedicated to reducing disability and death from heart diseases and stroke in the Americas.

She helped organize the CARMELA Study of 7 Latin American cities to evaluate risk factors of heart disease. Redirected her organization towards advocacy particularly to support ratification and strongest possible implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Promoted improved contacts with the media. Has helped develop a network of National Resuscitation Councils for the management of cv emergencies.

Prior to her work with the InterAmerican Heart Foundation, she taught strategy and public policy at the University of Texas at Dallas. She was Director, Planning and Marketing Strategy, at the American Heart Association. She holds Ph.D. and M.S. from Rutgers University in psychology and B.S. summa cum laude from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.  She was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina.