2006 Latin America Forum: “Latin America at the Crossroads: the path forward?”
PROGRAMME | SPEAKERS
Latin America at the Crossroads: the path forward?
Friday 2 June 2006
08:30 – 09:00
Registration - Coffee & Pastries
09:00 – 09: 15
Welcome and Opening Remarks: Michael Perlman, Chair, Latin America Regional Advisory Board
09:15 – 10:00
Interview: Business Ethics and Governance in Latin America - An Economic and Social Necessity?
• Lord Daniel Brennan QC, Chairman Caux Round Table and Latin America Consultant to The World Bank, interviewed by Gay Haskins, Director of External Relations, London Business School
10:00 – 10:45
Key Note Speaker: Spotlight on Mexico – Capitalising its Investment Grade Rating
• Alonso García Tamés, Under Secretary of Finance and Public Credit - Mexico
10:45 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:50
Key Note Speakers: Free Trade in Latin America: Myths, Facts, Opportunities and Fears
• Overview: Alejandro Jara, Deputy Director General, World Trade Organization
11:50 – 12:30
• Success Story: Mauricio Campillo, CEO, Alianza Team - Colombia
12:30 – 13:30 Latin American Lunch
13:30 – 14:45
Panel Session: Latin America Future Macroeconomic Development: Leader, Follower or Other?
• Moderator: Simon Commander, Director, Centre for New and Emerging Markets, London Business School
• Mike Reid, Americas Editor, The Economist
• Lauren Philips, Research Fellow, International Economic Development, Overseas Development Institute
• Isauro Torres, Chargé d’Affairs, Embassy of Chile in the UK
• Abel Abarca Ayala, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Mexico in the UK
14:45 – 15:00
Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:15
Panel Session: Brazil, a Building Block of the Global Economy?
• Moderator: Donald Sull, Associate Professor of Management Practice, Strategic and International Management, London Business School
• Antonio Quintella, Managing Director, Credit Suisse Brazil
• Ana Maria Sampaio, Minister of Commercial and Economic Affairs, Brazilian Embassy in the UK
• Paul Eadie, Brazilian Market Advisor, UK Trade & Investment
16:15 – 16:45
Closing Remarks: Argentina, Back on Track
• HE Ambassador D. Federico Mirré, Embassy of Argentina in the UK
16:45 – 19:00
Networking Cocktail Reception
SPEAKERS
Alejandro Jara
Alejandro Jara was born in 1949 in Santiago, Chile. He studied high school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Santiago, Chile. In 1973 he obtained his law degree from the Universidad de Chile. With the support of a Fulbright scholarship he pursued graduate studies at the Law School, University of California at Berkeley (1975-1976).
In 1976 he joined the Foreign Service of Chile where he has specialized in international economic relations. He served in the Delegation of Chile to the GATT in Geneva (1979-1984) and was seconded to the Economic System for Latin America (SELA) in Caracas as Coordinator for Trade Policy Affairs. He was appointed Director for Bilateral Economic Affairs (1993-1994), Director for Multilateral Economic Affairs (1994-1999). During 1996 — 1997 he also served as Chile’s Senior Official to APEC. At the same period he was deputy Chief negotiator for the Chile — Canada Free Trade Agreement and in 1997-1998 he was Chief negotiator for the Chile — Mexico Free Trade Agreement. In July 1999 he was designated Director General for International Economic Relations.
In June 2000 he was appointed as Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Chile to the World Trade Organization in Geneva. During 2001 he served as Chairperson of the Committee on Trade and Environment of the WTO. In February 2002 he was elected as Chairman of the Special Session of the Council for Trade in Services, which is in charge of the negotiations mandated by Ministers in Doha. He is author of numerous articles and papers on international trade.
Mr. Jara is married to Daniela Benavente and has two children, Rafael Alejandro (1986) and Octavia Verónica (2003).
Mr. Antonio Quintella
Credit Suisse
Managing Director
Antonio Quintella is Managing Director of Credit Suisse First Boston in the Fixed Income Department in Brazil. He is the Country Head of Brazil and a member of the firm’s Management Council.
Antonio joined CSFB as Vice President in Investment Banking in 1997. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President in the corporate and investment banking department in ING Barings.
Antonio has a bachelors degree in Economics from Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro and an MBA from London Business School.
Alonso Garcia Tames
Under Secretary of Finance and Public Credit
Mexico
Mr. Alonso García Tamés is the Under Secretary of Finance and Public Credit in Mexico. He joined the Central Bank of Mexico in 1981 and since then has overseen areas of management of the International Reserves, the Peso-Dollar Exchange, the execution of the open market operations and has designed some Peso-Dollar exchange risk hedging vehicles.
He was in charge of the General Direction of Central Banking Operations at the Central Bank. Mr. Garcia Tamés joined the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit on December 2000 as General Director of Public Credit.
Mauricio Campillo
Alianza TEAM CEO
Lawyer from the University of Medellín, Mr. Campillo has taken part of various courses in strategy, leadership, marketing, innovation and M&A in various universities, including: London Business School, Harvard Business School, and Wharton.
He has worked in several positions in the public and private sector in Colombia. Presently, he is the CEO of Alianza TEAM, an integrating company of various palm oils producers. He is also member of the “Sustainable Development Colombian Council”.
Mr. Campillo has been actively envolved in the negotiations of free trade agreements with the MERCOSUR group and also with the United States.
He was recognized as one of the 13 most talented young entreprenuers in Latin America by Latin Trade magazine (2004).
Simon Commander
Director,
Centre for New and Emerging Markets
London Business School
Simon Commander is Director of London Business School's Centre for New and Emerging Markets and Senior Adviser at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London.
He has previously worked at the World Bank as well as in academic institutions. He holds a BA from Oxford University and a PhD from Cambridge University.
He is the author of a number of books and numerous articles in refereed journals.
Lauren Phillips
Lauren Phillips is Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute in the International Economic Development Group. She is an international political economist, and recently completed a PhD at the London School of Economics on political risk and financial market performance in Latin America.
She has previous work experience in the financial industry on Wall Street and in the City of London as well as in the public sector at the Bank of England. Her research interests include financial market stability, international financial architecture and sovereign debt. Her undergraduate and masters degrees are from Stanford University in international relations and policy, with a focus on Latin America.
Donald Sull
Associate Professor of Management Practice
Strategic and International Management
Donald N. Sull is an Associate Professor of Management Practice at the London Business School, where he teaches electives on leading strategic transformation and managing in unpredictable markets. Sull has published four books, over 65 articles, book chapters and cases. Four of his six Harvard Business Review articles have been bestsellers.
His most recent book, Made in China: What Western managers can learn from trail-blazing Chinese entrepreneurs, (Harvard Business School Press, 2005) was named one of the top eight business books of 2005 by the Financial Times. Why Good Companies go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them (Harvard Business School Press, 2005) was named a finalist for the Academy of Management’s Outstanding Management Book Award, listed among the top ten business books of they year by business publications around the world, and translated into eight languages. Sull’s academic research has won honors including the George S. Dively Award for outstanding dissertation and the Newcomen Prize for the best paper in business history.
Sull won teaching awards at the London Business School and Harvard University. He is a core faculty member on the London Business School’s Senior Executive Programme, and teaches an open program on managing in unpredictable markets. He has consulted to multinationals around the world including Procter & Gamble, Roche, Nokia, Samsung Electronics, Danone, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, ACNielsen, Compaq Computer, Ericsson, TDC Mobile, General Motors, Credit Suisse First Boston, LG Electronics, among others.
Sull received his AB, MBA, and doctorate from Harvard University, and served as a professor of entrepreneurship at the Harvard Business School. Prior to academia, Sull worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, and as a management-investor with the leveraged buyout firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. He remains active in private equity as an advisor and investor.
Gay Haskings
Director of External Relations
London Business School
Gay Haskins is Director of External Relations at London Business School, with special responsibility for the Regional Advisory Boards established worldwide to advance the School’s global reach and for the School’s annual Summit on Global Leadership. Gay has been Director of the School’s Senior Executive Programme (2001 to 2003), Associate Dean of Executive Education (1996 to 2001) and Director of the Centre for Management Development (1995 to 1996). Between 2001 and 2002 she was seconded as Associate Dean of Executive Education to the Indian School of Business in partnership with London Business School, Kellogg and Wharton. She has also served on the School’s Governing Body.
Between October 1990 and December 1994, Gay was Director General of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). She was the first woman to be appointed to this top-level European position. Earlier, Gay was Director of the Economist newspaper’s conference unit.
Gay has an MBA with distinction from York University, Canada. She has co-authored various papers and reports on management development and corporate social responsibility and is a founding member of the European Women’s Management Development Network. She was awarded the 1995 prize of the Sven Ake Nilsson Memorial Fund in Sweden in recognition of her contribution to management development.
Paul Eadie
MBE
As Sales Director and eventually Chairman and Chief Executive he helped transform the Company into a PLC before the Textile machinery division was sold off to the Japanese in 1987 and he opted to be part of the takeover package and work for Kanai, Osaka.
In 1994 he became the DTI Export Promoter for Brazil and in the millennium Honours list he was awarded an MBE for services to exports to Brazil.
In 2001 he became the Brazil Market Adviser within Canning House TBS(Formerly known as LATAG, the Latin American Trade Advisory Group .In October 2004 he ceased to be an employee of Canning House but continues as a Consultant to them on matters Brazilian.
Paul has more recently been engaged by Merseyside ITC to be the Latin America Trade Adviser for the North West of England and also is engaged by UKTI,ISG Engineering Sector to do a specific project on Brazil.
Abel Abarca-Ayala
Abel Abarca-Ayala has a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, a Master’s Degree (M.Phil.) in Economic Policy and Planning from Cambridge University and a Master’s Degree in Econometrics and Economic Development from Manchester University, both in the United Kingdom.
In the Public Administration, Mr. Abarca has been Director General for Mining Promotion in the Ministry of Economy, from 2001 to 2005.
In 1998-2000 he was Director General for Technical and Scientific Co-operation and in 1997-1998, Director General for Economic Affairs with Asia-Pacific and North America in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In the Foreign Service Mr. Abarca’s appointments have been as Counsellor for Economic Affairs at the Mexican Mission to the International Organisations of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland (1994-1996) and as Deputy Head of Mission and Economic Counsellor at the Mexican Embassy in Norway (1989-1993).
In the Mexican Oil Company (PEMEX) he was General Superintendent of World Energy Market Analysis in the Economic Studies Division (1983-1988).
Currently, Abel Abarca is Minister and Deputy Head of Mission at the Mexican Embassy to the United Kingdom. He was born in Mexico City.
Michael Reid
Americas Editor, The Economist, since May 1999. Based in the head office in London, this post involves co-ordinating The Economist’s coverage of Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada, and writing editorials and reports on the region. Previous posts for The Economist include South America Bureau Chief, based in Sao Paulo (1996-99), Consumer Industries and Marketing correspondent (1994-96) and Mexico and Central America correspondent (1990-93). He was formerly a writer and journalist on the Andean countries, based in Lima, Peru (1982-90).
He writes a monthly column on Latin American affairs in Poder magazine (Mexico); between 2000-04 he wrote a weekly column in Valor Econômico, Brazil’s financial daily newspaper. He has written Economist surveys on Argentina (2004), Colombia (2001), Brazil (1999), Latin American Business (1997), Mercosur (1996) and Retailing (1995). He is currently writing a book on democracy and development in contemporary Latin America, to be published by Yale University Press in early 2007.
Ms Ana Maria Sampaio Fernandes
Minister-Counsellor
Minister-Counsellor for Economic Affairs at the Embassy of Brazil in London since November 2004;
Head of the Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies Division from 2000 to 2004.
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