Gastón Ocampo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at Roanoke College, in the state of Virginia, USA, where he graduated in International Relations and Business Management. Former Member of the IPDAL Advisory Board and first Director of the IPDAL Academy, he arrived in Lisbon from Washington, DC, where he worked in the Office of the President of the Inter-American Dialogue, one of the main think tanks in the world dedicated to the study of Latin America.