Marco Cáceres is the cofounder of projecthonduras.com and the director of the Conference on Honduras series.

The projecthonduras.com network consists of more than 6,000 people worldwide and hundreds of non-governmental organizations, universities, companies, churches, and agencies. The annual conference which is now permanently based in Copan Ruinas, Honduras, attracts more than 250 representatives from over 110 groups. Eight conferences have been held since 2000, and a ninth is scheduled for October 2-4, 2008. Click here to register to attend. Click here to view photos of past conferences.

Marco undertakes projecthonduras.com and the Conference on Honduras as volunteer projects to help Honduras and create an alternative model of development for poor countries in general... one that is weighted more toward attracting "human capital" rather than financial.

Marco is an aerospace analyst for a small consulting firm in Fairfax, Virginia, called the Teal Group. He is the author of the World Space Systems Briefing, which he created for Teal in 1992 to cover future satellite programs, launch vehicles, and spaceports.

In his work as the senior space analyst, Marco directs all special studies involving the space market. He has performed major market studies for a variety of industry clients, including ATK, Boeing, EADS, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, and NASA. Previously in 1988-90, Marco was a market analyst for Jane's Information Group of the UK. He edited the consultancy's DMS Defense and Aerospace Agencies and DMS Electronic Systems publications.

During 1982-1988, Marco served as a legislative correspondent and legislative aide on the personal staff of US Senator Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico. He was a member of Senator Domenici's team which drafted and passed legislation creating the Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology Research Initiative or "Sematech", designed to strengthen the international competitive position of the US semiconductor industry.

Regularly cited by both the trade and popular press for his space market forecasts and insights, Marco is also a contributor to several aerospace magazines. Since 1996, he has written the satellite and launch vehicle outlooks and specifications tables for Aviation Week & Space Technology's annual Source Book edition. For Aerospace America, he writes a column called "Industry Insights", focusing on trends in the space market. Marco has been interviewed for television and radio programs by ABC News, the BBC, CNBC, CNN, Cox Broadcasting, and NPR.

Marco is a regular speaker at industry conferences, including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' (AIAA) Global Air & Space Conference and World Space Congress, the American Institute of Engineers' Military Space Opportunities Conference, the Center for Transatlantic Relations/République Francaise' Visions of the 21st Century Space Industry, the Institute for International Research's Space & Satellite Finance Conference, and AIAA/Teal Group's Aerospace Markets, the Decade Ahead.

He has provided market briefings for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Center for Global Security Research, the President's Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond, the US Industrial War College, and the US National Reconnaissance Office.

Marco is a graduate the University of Richmond, Virginia. He was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.