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Speaker Profiles Speaker Profiles Manuel Alcántara is professor of political science at Nancy Birdsall is founder and president of the Cen- the University of Salamanca. ter for Global Development. She previously served as executive vice-president of the Inter-American Devel- José María Aznar served as prime minister of Spain opment Bank and as director of policy research at the from 1996 to 2004. He is currently chair of the Atlan- World Bank. tic Basin Initiative at John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies as well as Adrián Bonilla is secretary general of the Latin president of the Foundation for Analysis and Social American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO). He Studies (FAES). previously directed FLACSO—Ecuador. Alicia Bárcena is executive secretary for the United Carlos Basombrío is consulting director of the Citi- Nations Economic Commission of Latin America and zen Security Project at the Wilson Center’s Latin the Caribbean (ECLAC). She previously served as American Program and a political analyst for Perú 21. under secretary general for management for Secre- He previously was director of the Institute of Legal tary General Ban Ki-moon and acting chef de cabinet Defense in Peru and served as vice minister of the for Secretary General Kofi Annan. interior under the administration of President Alejandro Toledo. Luis Bareiro is a journalist and political commentator for Ultima Hora in Paraguay. Frances Burwell is vice president of the Atlantic Council and director of its Trans-Atlantic Relations Andrea Bernal is director of news programs for Program. NTN24 in Colombia. 1 XVII Annual CAF Conference Speaker Profiles Diego Cánepa is deputy secretary of the presidency Enrique García has served as president and CEO of Uruguay. He was elected to the Uruguayan of CAF – Development Bank of Latin America since Chamber of Deputies in 2004 and served as mem- 1991. Previously, he was Bolivia’s minister of plan- ber of the Mercosur Parliament at its founding in ning and coordination and head of the economic and 2006. social cabinet. He has also served as treasurer of the Inter-American Development Bank. García is co- Alberto Cardenas is chair of the American Con- vice chair of the Inter-American Dialogue. servative Union and a senior partner in the govern- ment affairs practice of Cardenas Partners. He Wu Guoping is professor of Latin American studies served as special ambassador to St. Kitts under the at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) administration of President Reagan and directed the in Beijing. president’s Commission on Small and Minority Busi- nesses. Dan Hamilton is professor and executive director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at John Hop- Lázaro Cárdenas is the former governor of Michoa- kins University’s School of Advanced International cán state in Mexico. He is a member of the Inter- Studies. Hamilton has held a variety of high-level American Dialogue. positions in the US Department of State, including deputy assistant secretary for European affairs. Fernando Carrera was appointed Guatemala’s min- ister of foreign affairs by President Otto Pérez Moli- Ricardo Hausmann is director of the Center for In- na in January 2013. He previously served as Guate- ternational Development at Harvard University’s mala’s secretary of planning and programing. John F. Kennedy School of Government. Before that, Hausmann served as the chief economist of Jorge Castañeda is distinguished professor of Latin the Inter-American Development Bank and as Vene- American studies at New York University and Mexi- zuela’s minister of planning from 1992 to 1993. co’s former secretary of foreign affairs. He writes regularly for Reforma and Newsweek International Carla A. Hills served as US trade representative in and is the author of some dozen books on Mexico. the George H.W. Bush administration and as secre- tary of housing and urban development in the Ger- João Augusto de Castro Neves is a senior analyst ald Ford administration. She is currently chair and in the Eurasia Group’s Latin America practice. CEO of Hills & Company. Hills is also co-chair of the Silvia Elena Chaves is the founder and vice- Inter-American Dialogue. president of Florex a Costa Rican-based company dedicated to the production of environmentally José Miguel Insulza is secretary general of the Or- friendly cleaning products ganization of American States. Prior to his election in 2005, he held a number of high-level cabinet posi- Jean-Louis Ekra is chairman and president of the tions in the government of Chile, serving as minister African Export-Import Bank. Previously, he was vice- of foreign affairs, minister secretary general of the president of international financial institutions at Citi- presidency, and minister of the interior. bank. Nelson Jobim served as Brazil’s minister of de- Benita Ferrero-Waldner is president of the EU-LAC fense from 2007 to 2011. Prior to joining the minis- Foundation and former foreign affairs minister of try, he presided over the country’s Supreme Court, Austria. She previously served as commissioner of first as a federal justice and then as president. From trade for the European Union. 1987 to 1995, Jobim represented his home state of Guillermo Fernández de Soto served as foreign Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies, affairs minister of Colombia from 1998 to 2002. He is retiring only after his appointment as minister of jus- currently director for Europe of CAF – Development tice by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Bank of Latin America. 2 XVII Annual CAF Conference Speaker Profiles Gil Kerlikowske was appointed director of the Luis Alberto Moreno is president of the Inter- White House Office of National Drug Control Policy American Development Bank. Before joining the in 2009, after having served nine years as chief of Bank in 2005, Moreno was ambassador of Colombia police for Seattle, Washington. to the United States. He also served as president of Colombia’s Industrial Development Agency and min- Patricia Janiot is a senior anchor for CNN en Espa- ister of economic development. ñol and serves as advisor to the executive vice pres- ident and general manager of the network. Moisés Naím is a senior associate in the Interna- tional Economics Program at the Carnegie Endow- John Kerry was appointed US Secretary of State in ment for International Peace. Before that, he served January 2013. From 1985 until his nomination, Kerry as Venezuela’s minister of trade and industry, direc- represented the state of Massachusetts in the US Senate, where he served as chairman of the Foreign tor of Venezuela’s Central Bank, and executive di- Relations Committee and as a member of the Joint rector of the World Bank. Naím is a member of the Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. Inter-American Dialogue. Óscar Naranjo directed Colombia’s national police Kemal Kirişci is TUSIAD senior fellow and director from 2007 to 2012. He currently serves as an inde- of the Turkey Project at Brookings Institution’s Cen- pendent consultant on security issues and as direc- ter for the United States and Europe. tor of the Latin American Citizen Institute at Monter- Luis Alberto Lacalle served as president of Uru- rey Institute of Technology and Higher Education guay from 1990 to 1995. He previously served as (ITESM). Senate vice president. José Antonio Ocampo is professor of professional Ricardo Lagos served as president of Chile from practice at Columbia University’s School of Interna- 2000 to 2006. After leaving office, he founded tional and Public Affairs. Previously, he served in a Fundación Democracia y Desarrollo and was ap- number of positions in the United Nations and the pointed special envoy on climate change for the government of Colombia, most notably as executive United Nations in 2007. He is chair emeritus of the secretary for the UN Economic Commission for Latin Inter-American Dialogue. America and the Caribbean and in Colombia as min- ister of finance and minister of agriculture. Jorge Leal Rodríguez is founder of Fundación HETAH, the Foundation for the Development of Rodrigo Pardo is news director of RCN Televisión Technological Tools for Humanitarian Aid. and former foreign affairs minister of Colombia. Luis Vicente León is president of Datanálisis. He is Robert Pastor is director of the Center for North also professor at the Universidad Católica Andrés American Studies at American University. Pastor Bello and the Institute of Advanced Studies in Ad- previously served as US national security advisor on ministration (IESA) , both in Caracas. Latin America during the administration of President Doris Meissner is senior fellow at the Migration Jimmy Carter and ambassador to Panama under Policy Institute. She previously served as commis- President Bill Clinton. After leaving government, he sioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service joined American University as vice president of inter- in the US Department of Justice during the admin- national affairs in 2002. istration of President Bill Clinton. Michael Penfold is director for public policy and María Emma Mejía served as minister of foreign competitiveness at CAF – Development Bank of Lat- affairs and minister of education under the admin- in America and associate professor at the Institute istration of Colombian President Ernesto Samper. In for Administrative Studies (IESA) in Caracas, which 2010, Mejía was appointed secretary general of the he headed from 1999 to 2003. Union of South American Nations (UNASUR). She is Ramón Pérez-Maura is an international political now executive director of Fundacíon Pies analyst and deputy director of Diario ABC in Spain. Descalzos. 3 XVII Annual CAF Conference Speaker Profiles Alejo Ramírez is secretary general of the Ibero- American Youth Organization (OIJ). Bill Richardson served as governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011. He was also US ambassador to the United Nations and energy secretary during the administration of President Bill Clinton.
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