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List of Invitees for the Latin America Inaugural Regional Meeting Inaugural Meeting, Latin America Emerging Markets Forum Madrid, 7June 2007, Banco de España List of Participants Luis Mira Amaral, Former Minister of Industry of Portugal; Co-Chairman Europe, Mercosur European Union Business Forum, Portugal Paulina Beato, Member of the Board of Directors, Repsol-Ypf and Advisor, Secretaria General Iberoamericana, Spain Mario Blejer, Former Governor, Central Bank of Argentina; Director, Centre for Central Banking Studies, Bank of England, United Kingdom Maria Eugenia Brizuela, President, Banco Salvadoreño, Salvador Walter Cancela, President, Central Bank of Uruguay, Uruguay Luis Miguel Castilla, Head, Public Policies and Competitiveness, Chief Economist, Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF), Venezuela Leslie Crawford, Bureau Chief, Financial Times, Spain Guillermo de la Dehesa, Member of the Board, Banco Santander, Vice-Chairman, Goldman Sachs Europe, Spain Juan Carlos Echeverri, Former Director of Planning of Colombia; Dean, Faculty of Economics, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Antonio Estrany y Gendre, Senior Vice-President, Bridas Corporation, President, Consejo Interamericano de la Producción y del Comercio, Argentina Miguel Fernandez Ordoñez, Governor, Banco de España, Spain L. Enrique Garcia, President and Chief Executive Officer, Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF), Venezuela Manuel González, Former Minister of Trade of Costa Rica, Partner, Facio & Cañas, Costa Rica Werner Hermann, Director, Swiss National Bank, Switzerland Heinz Hauser, Professor of International Economics, Director of the Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research (SIAW), University St. Gallen, Switzerland Fred Herren, Executive Vice-President, Member of the Operations Council, Société Générale de Surveillance, Switzerland Enrique V. Iglesias, Secretary General, Secretaria General Iberoamericana, co- Chair, Emerging Markets Forum, Spain Alejandro Jara, Deputy Director-General, World Trade Organization, Switzerland Rolf Jeker, Chair, Swiss Export Council, Switzerland Gautam Kaji, Founding Director, Emerging Markets Forum, Chairman, Centennial Group, USA Harinder Kohli, Chief Executive Officer, Emerging Markets Forum and President and Chief Executive Officer, The Centennial Group, USA Pilar L´Hotellerie-Fallois Armas, Associate Director General for International Affairs, Banco de España, Spain Claudio Loser, Former Director, Western Hemisphere, International Monetary Fund, President, Centennial Group Latin America, USA Nicolas Mariscal, Chairman, Grupo Marnhos, Mexico Gustavo Marturet, President, Banco Mercantil, Venezuela Pedro Antonio Merino, Chief Economist, Repsol YPF, Spain Carlos Mesa, Former President of Bolivia Marcilio Marques Moreira, Former Minister of Finance of Brazil and Principal, Conjuntura and Contextor Consultoria Empresarial Ltda, Brazil Alexis Mozarovski, President, Agenoil, Argentina Eduardo Navarro Carvalho, Director General, Strategy and Regulatory Affairs, Telefónica Internacional, Spain Sylvie Naville, Forum Manager, Emerging Markets Forum, USA Beatriz Nofal, President, Agency for the Investment Development, Ministry of Economy of Argentina, Argentina Xavier Nogales, Former Minister of Economy, Minister of Hydrocarbons and Central Bank Governor, Director, Centennial Group Latin America, Bolivia Federico Ignacio Poli, Chief of Economic Area, Secretaria General Iberoamericana, Spain Martin Redrado, Governor, Central Bank of Argentina, Argentina Miguel Rodríguez Mendoza, Former Deputy Director-General, World Trade Organization, Advisor, Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF), Switzerland Javier Santiso, Chief Economist, Deputy Director, Development Centre, OECD, France Narcis Serra, President, Foundation CIDOB-Centro de Investigación de Relaciones Internacionales y Desarrollo, Spain Juan Alberto Sevilla, President, Saludsa Insurance Group, Ecuador Carlos Solchaga, Former Minister of Economy and Finance of Spain, Co-Chairman, Solchaga Recio & asociados, Spain Pedro Solbes Mira, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance of Spain Donald Strombom, President, International Business Development Co., Italy Ernesto Talvi, Executive Director, Ceres, Uruguay Inés Vega, Deputy Director, Strategy and Corporate Development, Grupo Prisa, Spain José Viñals, Vice-Governor, Banco de España, Spain Ignacio Walker, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, President, Cieplan-Latin America Centre for Economic Studies, Chile .
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