Schedule

(Preliminary schedule)

8:30 – 9:00 am
Registration (Click here!)

9:00 – 9:15 am
Opening Remarks

Mr. John H. Coatsworth
Acting Dean, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA)

Prof. José Moya
Institute of Latin American Studies, Director

Miss Angela Ortiz
Latin American Student Association, President

9:15 – 11:00 am    
Panel I: Economic Panel

20’ Prof. Guillermo Calvo
Program in Economic Policy Management-SIPA, Director and former Inter-American Development Bank’s Chief Economist

20’ Prof. José Antonio Ocampo
SIPA;s Professor and former United Nations’s Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs

20’ Ms. Liliana Rojas-Suarez
Center for Global Development, Senior Fellow and former Managing Director and Chief Economist for Latin America at Deutsche Bank

45’ Q&A – Policy debate

11:00 – 11:15 am  
Networking break

11:15 – 1:00 pm    
Panel II: Social policies

20’ Mr. Jaime Saavedra
Sector Manager for the Poverty and Gender Group, World Bank- Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit, Latin America and the Caribbean Region.

20’ Ms. Emiliana Vegas
Senior Education Economist, World Bank's Human Development Department of the Latin America and the Caribbean Region

20’ H.E. Ambassador Mario Gustavo Guzmán Saldaña
Bolivia’s Ambassador in Washington, DC

45’ Q&A – Policy debate

1:00 – 2:15 pm
Lunch break

2:15 – 4:00 pm
Panel III: Political Panel

20’ Mr. Christopher Sabatini
Editor in Chief, Americas Quarterly Journal
Council of Americas

20’ Prof. Christopher Mitchell
New York University’s Professor of Politics

20’ H. E. Ambassador Heraldo Muñoz
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations.

45’ Q&A – Policy debate

4:00 – 5:10 pm
Concluding remarks

40’ President Fernando Henrique Cardoso

30’ Q&A

5:30 – 6:30 pm
Reception