2007 Latin America Forum: “Latin America: Advancing in the Global Context”
PROGRAMME | SPEAKERS
Latin America: Advancing in the Global Context
Friday 1 June 2007
09:00
Registration and Coffee
09:30
Introduction
Sir Andrew Likierman, Acting Dean, London Business School
09:45
Keynote 1: Interactive Interview
Andres Pastrana Arango, former President of Colombia interview with Greg Brown, Editor-In-Chief, Latin Trade
10:45
Coffee Break
11:00
Panel Session 1: Investing in Latin America
•Michael Mortimore, Chief, Investment and Corporate Strategies, ECLAC
•Michael Reid, America’s Editor, The Economist
•Guillermo Felices, Economist, Bank of England
•Jesús González Nieto-Márquez, Managing Director, LATIBEX
Moderator: Andrew Scott, Professor of Economics, London Business School and Managing Editor, The Economic Journal
12:15
Networking Lunch
13:30
Panel Session 2: Latin America’s Response to the Growth of China and India
•Javier Santiso, Deputy Director and Chief Economist, Development Centre, OECD
•Lucio Castro, Senior Economist, Maxwell Stamp
•Javier de Santos, Chief Executive Officer, The Mind Company
•Will Ollard, Editor, Latin America – Asia Review and Head of Economics, Latin American Newsletters
•Greg Brown, Editor-In-Chief, Latin Trade
Moderator: Simon Commander, Director, Centre for New and Emerging Markets, London Business School and Senior Adviser, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
14:45
Keynote 3: 100 Years of VITRO: The Turnaround of an International Glassmaker
Federico Sada Gonzalez, Chief Executive Officer, VITRO
15:30
Coffee Break
15:45
Panel Session 3: Latin America Going Global / Success Stories from Latin America
•Federico Sada Gonzalez, Chief Executive Officer, VITRO
•Horacio Forjaz, Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications, EMBRAER
•Luis Schiriak, Chief Financial Officer, Votorantim
•Ignacio Ortiz, President, CEMEX UK
•Eduardo Luppi, Vice President - Innovation, NATURA
Moderator: Don Sull, Associate Professor of Management Practice in Strategic and International Management, London Business School
17:00
Closing Session Lessons and Opportunities: An Overview
Dr Carlos Salinas de Gortari, former President of Mexico
17:45
Networking cocktail reception
SPEAKERS
Sir Andrew Likierman, Acting Dean, London Business School
Sir Andrew is Professor of Management Practice at the London Business School, non-executive Director of the Bank of England, Barclays Bank plc and the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and non-executive Chairman of Applied Intellectual Capital plc, an AIM-listed US technology incubator. His previous posts at London Business School have included Deputy Principal and Professor of Accounting and Financial Control. He is currently researching, lecturing and consulting on how organisations can improve their choice and use of performance measures.
Andrew previously worked in both public and private sectors. In the private sector he ran a textile plant in Germany and was Managing Director of the overseas division of Qualitex Ltd. He also started and then sold his own business selling business books. He has been non-executive Chairman of the Economists' Bookshops Group and of the market research firm MORI Ltd. In the public sector he was a member of the Cabinet Office Central Policy Review Staff (the "Think Tank") and recently completed a 10-year period as one of the Managing Directors of the UK Treasury. In his professional capacity, Andrew is a past president of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and has been a member of many official inquiries, including the “Cadbury Committee” on corporate governance and, last year, on the governance and oversight of the United Nations. He has written 3 books and over 150 articles.
Andrés Pastrana Arango, President of Colombia from 1998 to 2002
Born in 1954, Andrés Pastrana Arango was President of the Republic of Colombia from 1998 to 2002. Dr Pastrana began his political career in 1982, by gaining a seat on the local Bogotá council. Before becoming President in 1998, he was also President of the City Council of Bogotá; he was the first elected Mayor of Bogotá(1988-1990) President of the Latin American Chapter of IULA (International Union of Local Authorities); Vice President of UCCI (Ibero-American Union of Capital Cities); Founder of the Party Nueva Fuerza Democratica. Senator and a Presidential Candidate in 1994.
During his presidency, Dr Pastrana made some important steps in with his negotiations with FARC and ELN. His administration also proposed and initially oversaw the implementation of Plan Colombia aid package and anti-drug strategy.
During his father's presidency, Dr Pastrana graduated as a Lawyer from the University of Rosario in Bogotá. He was a fellow at Harvard University Centre for International Affairs .He founded a magazine called Guión and a television news programme called Noticiero TV Hoy. He was Director of TV Hoy News from 1980 to 1987.he was twice awarded with the King of Spain award for journalism.
Greg Brown, Editor-In-Chief, Latin Trade
Mr Greg Brown is the Editor-in-Chief of Latin Trade, the No. 1 pan-regional magazine covering trade and business in Latin America. Prior to joining Latin Trade, Brown was a freelance correspondent for major U.S. and European business publications in Santiago, Chile, including Business Week, Newsweek, Christian Science Monitor and Latin Trade. He is a former Dow Jones Newswires staff writer and a former staff writer for The Miami Herald. He is a graduate of the University of Florida (MA English literature) and of Stetson University (BA English/BA History).
Michael Mortimore, Chief, Investment and Corporate Strategies, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Mr Mortimore resumed his post as Chief of the Unit on Investment and Corporate Strategies of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in 2002. Previously, he had been Chief of the Development Issues section of the Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and since 1993, he had been part of the Joint Unit between ECLAC and UNCTAD. He began his career at the United Nations Organization in 1976 located at Santiago, Chile in the Joint Unit of ECLAC and the Centre on Transnational Corporations (UNCTC). The Unit that Mr. Mortimore presently manages produces the ECLAC annual report entitled Foreign Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean. The UNCTAD Unit that Mr. Mortimore managed produces the thematic section of the annual report entitled World Investment Report.
Mr Mortimore's research record has been centred primarily on original empirical work dealing with the impact of the corporate strategies of transnational corporations and their investments in Latin America and the Caribbean. His work includes comparing the experiences of Latin American countries and corporations to those of other developing regions. Mr Mortimore's latest publications include: Argentina y los Tratados de Inversión: El costo de los compromisos internacionales; TARGETING WINNERS: Can FDI policy help developing countries industrialise? and The Impact of TNC Strategies on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Michael Reid, America's Editor, The Economist
Mr Michael Reid is Americas Editor of 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.
Guillermo Felices, Senior Economist, The Bank of England
Mr Guillermo Felices is a Senior Economist at the International Finance Division in the Financial Stability area of the Bank of England. As part of this role he conducts research and conjunctural work on quantifying risks to emerging markets and their potential effects on mature economies, including the UK. Prior to this role he worked in the monetary policy area of the Bank. Before joining the Bank in 2002, he studied a PhD in Economics at New York University, specialising in monetary and macroeconomics, international finance and labour economics.
Jesús González Nieto-Márquez, Director, Latibex
Mr Jesus Gonzalez is Market Development Director of Bolsa de Madrid (Madrid Stock Exchange), Coordinating Director of Latibex, the Euro-denominated Market for Latin American Stocks, and Vice-Chairman and Executive Director of MAB (Spain's Alternative Investment Market). He joined the Clearing and Settlement Department of Bolsa de Madrid in 1987. In 1989 he was appointed Manager of this department, until 1992, when he took the responsibility of organising a Market Development Department. Mr. Gonzalez has been a member of the Board of Directors of the former SCLV (now IBERCLEAR, Spanish central depository) until 2000 and currently participates in the Mediation Committee of IBERCLEAR. Jesus Gonzalez has degrees in Law and in Economics from ICADE (University of Comillas). He is also a member of the Spanish Institute of Financial Analysts.
Moderator: Andrew Scott, Professor of Economics, London Business School and Managing Editor, The Economic Journal
Professor Andrew Scott is Professor of Economics at London Business School. Previously he was a Fellow at All Souls, Oxford and has held lecturing positions at Harvard University and LSE. He is the Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister of Mauritius and an advisor on Monetary Policy to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee. He has been an advisor to Chief Economists at both the Bank of England and H.M.Treasury and to a range of government departments and ministers. His research focuses mainly on business cycles with a focus on monetary and fiscal policy and bond markets. He is Managing Editor for the Royal Economic Society's Economic Journal.
Javier Santiso, Deputy Director and Chief Economist, Development Centre, OECD
Mr Javier Santiso is Deputy Director and Chief Development Economist at the Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Mr Santiso, who is a Spanish and French national, began his career in 1995 at the Latin American Centre, University of Oxford. Tenured as Research Fellow at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, he also served as a Senior Expert Associate on Latin American Emerging Markets for Crédit Agricole Indosuez (now Calyon) and in 2002, became Chief Economist for Latin America and Emerging Markets at the Economic Research Department of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA). Mr Santiso holds BA, MA and PhD degrees from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and finished his doctoral studies in development economics at St Anthony's College, Oxford University. He also holds an MBA from HEC School of Management in France and an Executive MBA from IESE Business School. Editor-in-chief of Problèmes d'Amérique latine, Mr Santiso is the author of over 30 articles on international economy. Published in leading academic reviews, they have primarily focused on developing and emerging economies. His most recent published book is entitled Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free Marketeer”.
Lucio Castro, Senior Economist, Maxwell Stamp PLC
Mr Lucio Castro is an expert in international trade and regional integration specializing in the economic relationship between China and Latin America. Currently, he is Senior Economist at Maxwell Stamp, PLC, an economic consulting firm in London. Mr Castro is a highly experienced and skilled economist, who specialises in analysis and applied modelling relating to international trade and regional integration.
Mr Castro has extensive experience in trade policy and regional integration at the Ministry of Economy of Argentina, the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank. Mr. Castro has almost 10 years of experience in economic development, both in government and consultancy assignments on Africa, South Eastern Europe, and Latin America.
Mr. Castro is co-author of the first book written on the economic relationship between Argentina and China: China: How Can Argentina Seize the Great Opportunity. He is also the author of several publications on trade, fiscal and welfare impacts of the China-Latin America economic nexus and regionalism such as: The Impact of Trade with China and India on the Employment of the Manufacturing Sector in Argentina; Regional Banks and Regionalism: A New Frontier for Development Financing.
He is frequent columnist in international economics topics for several Argentine newspapers, such as Clarin and El Cronista Comercial, radio and TV stations, and international media, such as Bloomberg. He has a Masters degree from the Program in Economic Policy Management at Columbia University at the City of New York and is Dphil (cand.) in Economics at the University of Sussex.
Javier de Santos, Chief Executive Officer, The Mind Company
Mr Javier de Santos is the Managing Director and Founder of The Mind Company, one of Latin America's leading Knowledge Process Outsourcing companies. Prior to that, he worked in management consulting for Booz Allen Hamilton (NY) and Kaiser Associates (London) as a Senior Manager, serving Healthcare, Consumer Goods and Telecom industries in Latin America, the US, Europe and Asia. He also managed a Publishing House in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Javier de Santos holds a business degree from the Universidad de San Andres (Argentina) and has an MBA from the Yale School of Management.
Will Ollard, Editor, Latin America-Asia Review and Head of Economics, Latin America Newsletters
Will Ollard is head of economics for LAN and editor of Latin America Newsletters' leading monthly publication, Latin American Economy and Business. He also edits Latinnews Daily, our Mexico Regional Report and our bi monthly Latin America – Asia Review. Before joining LAN, Will spent six years (1981-87) with Euromoney, where he became US editor, and then took up the role of banking correspondent for The Economist until 1990.
Moderator: Simon Commander, Director, Centre for New and Emerging Markets, London Business School and Senior Adviser, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Dr 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.
Federico Sada Gonzalez, Chief Executive Officer, VITRO
Mr Federico Sada G obtained his BS degree in Business Administration at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, his M.B.A. degree from IMEDE, now IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, and also attended Harvard´s Advanced Management Programme. On January 1, 1995 he was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Vitro.
Mr Sada joined Vitro in 1974 and in 1985 was appointed President of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Vitro's Glass Containers Division. Mr Sada is member of the boards of Vitro, S. A., Bombardier Inc, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centre, and Regio Empresas. Mr. Sada is Chairman of Trustees of the National Museum of History (Chapultepec Castle) and Parque Ecológico Chipinque. He is also a member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, and also of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in Geneva, Switzerland. He was also the first Chairman of the Mexican Council for Foreign Trade (COMCE).
Federico Sada was born in Monterrey, N.L., on 1949, is married with Liliana Melo de Sada and has one daughter and two sons, Liliana, Federico and Mauricio. His hobbies are reading, skiing and hunting.
Horacio Forjaz, Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications, Embraer
Mr Horacio Aragonés Forjaz, 55, is an electronic engineer graduated in 1974 from Brazil's ITA - Instituto Tecnológico da Aeronáutica. He earned his MsC degree in Applied Computing in 1980 at Brazil´s Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE). Mr Forjaz first joined Empre Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica SA (Embraer) in 1974, initially as an intern and subsequently as a systems engineer. In 1990 he was designated Systems Engineering Manager and Engineering Director in 1991, a position held until March 1995, when Forjaz left Embraer to lead a business of his own. Mr Forjaz joined Embraer again in November 1997, initially as Engineering Director and later as Vice-President, Organizational Planning and Development. Currently he holds the position of Executive Vice-President, Corporate Communications, involving activities at a corporate level related to Marketing, Press and Public Relations, and Social Development.
Eduardo Luppi, Innovation Vice President, NATURA (SEP62)
Mr Eduardo Luppi is Vice President of Innovation at Natura, responsible for the areas of Innovation Marketing, Product Development and Technology. Previously, he was the Director of Technology and Product Development and the General Director of Medicinal Flora at the Company.
Mr Luppi has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), and an MBA from Fundação Dom Cabral, and he completed the PGA – Advanced Management Programme – at INSEAD. Before joining Natura in 1998, he worked in the areas of R&D, Marketing and Innovation at Unilever.
Ignacio Ortiz, President, CEMEX, UK
Mr Ignacio Ortiz was appointed President of CEMEX UK Operations in May 2005 with responsibility for transforming the business by improving efficiency, productivity and profitability. He joined the UK business from his former role as senior vice-president of CEMEX's Asia Region, where he was responsible for operations in Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh and Taiwan.
Mr Ortiz joined CEMEX in 1989 and held the positions of president of Panama and president of Spain before his appointment to the Asia region. Ignacio Ortiz is a Stanford University graduate.
Luis Schiriak, Chief Financial Officer, Votorantim
Mr Luis Schiriak is CFO of Votorantim Participações, a holding of the Votorantim group. Votorantim is the largest diversified industrial group in Brazil with revenues for 2006 in excess of USD 12 billion and net income USD 2 billion. The group has industrial activities in Brazil, USA, Canada, Peru and Colombia as well as trading operations in Europe and Asia. Prior to his current position, he was VP Finance of BCP Telecom, cellular phone operator and a joint venture between Bell South and the Safra group (2001-2003) which was subsequently sold to Telecom Americas. Previously he was CFO for Latin America for the C&A retailing group (1995-2000) and held different financial positions with Schlumberger Ltd in Venezuela, Indonesia, France and the USA (1986-1994). A chartered accountant, he also worked for seven years in public accounting with Ernst & Young (Brazil and USA). Luis Schiriak is an Argentine native and married with 2 children.
Moderator: Don Sull, Associate Professor of Management Practice in Strategic and International Management, London Business School
Donald N Sull is Associate Professor of Management Practice at London Business School, where he teaches electives on leading strategic transformation and managing in unpredictable markets. Donald has taught entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School and strategy at London Business School, winning teaching awards in both. He has published four books, over 65 articles, book chapters and cases. Four of his six Harvard Business Review articles have been bestsellers. His books include the award-winning, Made in China: What Western managers can learn from trail-blazing Chinese entrepreneurs and Why Good Companies Go Bad. Dr Sull has been named as an ‘up-and-coming business thinker' by the Financial Times and identified as one of the next generation of management gurus.
Dr Sull is the Faculty Director of the Global Business Consortium, an executive education programme designed to accelerate multinationals' ability to create and sustain radical performance improvement which includes Oracle, Emirates Airline, Mars/Masterfood, Standard Chartered Bank, SKF and BT. 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. 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, Dr 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.
Dr Carlos Salinas de Gortari, President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994
Born in April 3, 1948, in Mexico City, Carlos Salinas de Gortari was Constitutional President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. When he was in office he introduced several reforms, like the regularisation of rural property, the reestablishment of relationships with the Vatican and the institution of a national ombudsman, amongst the most important ones. In addition, Salinas introduced a forceful program of economic reform. The government sold off through public bidding several state-owned enterprises to private investors and invested the obtained resources in reducing the domestic debt, thus providing resources for infrastructure and social services without a fiscal deficit. An innovative social program called Solidaridad, based in organized popular participation, was introduced. He also took steps to open the protected Mexican economy to both foreign investment and foreign competition. From 1991 his government negotiated the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which will eliminate all tariffs between Mexico, the United States, and Canada. In 1992 he signed NAFTA with President George Bush and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. The treaty came into force in January 1994, after being approved by the legislative bodies of Canada, Mexico and the United States. As President, Salinas also promoted key steps to reform Mexico's democracy. In 1992 he established the federal electoral institute (IFE) and by 1994 it had full credibility in organizing elections, with strong participation of civil organizations. AS a result, the 1994 presidential election was –and still is- the electoral process with the highest voter turn out in the history of Mexico. Before being President of Mexico, Carlos Salinas occupied several posts in public administration. Before he was elected as PRI Presidential Candidate, he was Minister of Planning ad Budget from 1982 to 1987. The son of a prestigious Mexican public servant and senator, Salinas joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) at age 18. From 1971 on he held successively more important economic-affairs posts in the government.
BA from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1971, Carlos Salinas holds also a MPA, MA and a PHD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University.
He has published Mexico: The Policy and Politics of Modernization (Random House, 2001) a comprehensive book about his administration (“Perhaps the most revealing book that any former Latin American president has ever written”, according to Foreign Affairs magazine). He has also published several books and texts on civic society, liberalization and the formation of social capital.
