Speaker Bios Latin America, Spain, and the United States in the Global Economy Forum
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SPEAKER BIOS LATIN AMERICA, SPAIN, AND THE UNITED STATES IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY FORUM Luis Berruga CEO Global-X Luis joined Global X in 2014. He is responsible for advancing Global X’s leadership in providing intelligent investment solutions. In doing so, he leads the organization of the senior management team to drive execution across all functional areas and the planning and implementation of the firm’s strategic vision. Prior to joining Global X, Luis served as an Investment Banker in the Financial Institutions Group at Jefferies, where he advised the board of directors and executive management teams of public and private companies on acquisitions, divestitures, and capital raises. Prior to that, Luis was at Morgan Stanley, where he focused primarily on technology and operations strategic planning within the Wealth & Asset Management Group. Luis earned his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Lourdes Casanova Senior Lecturer of Management, Director Emerging Markets Institute S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University Senior Lecturer and Director Emerging Markets Institute, S.C. Johnson School of Management, Cornell University, formerly at INSEAD, specializes in international business with focus on emerging markets multinationals. Awarded in 2014 and 2015 one of the 50 most influential Iberoamerican intellectuals and in 2017 one of the 30 most influential Iberoamerican women intellectuals by Esglobal. She is also a Faculty Fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and has a Fulbright Scholar with Master degree from University of Southern California and a PhD from University of Barcelona. Taught, directed executive programs at INSEAD for senior managers including Telefónica, BBVA and Cemex and Brazilian Confederation of Industries. Lourdes Casanova is a member of Latin America Global Agenda Council and the Competitiveness in Latin America task force of the World Economic Forum, Advisory Committee European Union/Brazil, World Investment Network at UNCTAD, the B20 Task Force on ICT and Innovation in Los Cabos, responsible at INSEAD of Goldman Sachs 10,000 women initiative and co-leading InnovaLatino on Innovation in Latin America. She is also a board member of the Boyce Tompson Institute, the start-up Documenta, founding Board Member of the Societé des Amis du Chateau de Fontainebleau and member of the Advisory Council of the Tompkins Public Library. Brian C. Dunning President Spain-U.S. Chamber of Commerce Brian Dunning’s practice focuses on advising clients, particularly from Spain and Latin America, facing litigation or arbitration in the United States and other venues. For close to two decades, Brian has represented innumerable companies in commercial disputes, many of those from Spain and Latin America. He is among the few American lawyers focusing on companies in these regions and has built an extensive and strong network in both places. Correspondingly, he has a deep understanding of complex, cross-border litigation and arbitration processes. He is also familiar with the challenges faced by businesses operating in an international environment, and is a confident advisor on issues arising from this context. Brian has acted for foreign individuals, businesses and sovereigns in state and federal courts in the United States, as well as in administered and ad hoc domestic and international arbitrations under the rules of various organizations, including AAA, ICDR, ICC, BCICAC, UNCITRAL and ICSID. Brian also acts as the general U.S. counsel for several Spanish companies. In addition to his litigation practice, Brian has a strong transactional practice advising clients on matters including acquisitions, distribution and commercial agreements, franchising, commercial leases, real estate development and licensing. He has represented clients in disputes including construction, manufacturing, product distribution, joint ventures, franchising, technology, securities, employment and insurance coverage. Brian serves as President of the Spain-U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Chairman of the Federación de Cámaras Oficiales Españolas de Comercio en América, Spain’s network of official chambers of commerce in the Western Hemisphere. In 2016, King Felipe VI recognized Brian’s service to the Spanish nation by awarding him the Cruz de Oficial de la Orden del Mérito Civil (Officer’s Cross of the Order of Civil Merit) of the Kingdom of Spain. He also advises the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations on international arbitration law and on universal jurisdiction for prosecution of war crimes. Brian is fluent in Spanish, proficient in Catalan and Portuguese, and has also studied French and German. Ignacio Fariza Journalist El Pais Ignacio Fariza graduated with a degree in Journalism and Economics from Carlos III University and obtained EL PAÍS' master's degree in journalism by the UAM. Between 2014 and 2015 he worked as a correspondent in Belgium, and then went back to Madrid to work in the Economics section for EL PAÍS' American edition. He was sent to Mexico as the economic correspondent, where he has been based since 2017, and he also is a member of the American edition coordinating team (both on and offline) since September 2018. Juan Andrés Fontaine Minister of Economy, Development and Tourism Chile Fontaine holds an undergraduate degree in Commercial Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Chicago. He has been Associate Professor of Economics at the Universidad Católica and the Universidad de Chile for many years. He also has been a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the United States. Fontaine has participated as an Associate Researcher at the Center for Public Research (CEP) and a Board Member with the Institute for Freedom and Development. Fontaine served as Finance Minister in 2010 and 2011 and was responsible for the launch and development of the Competitive Promotion Agenda, which involved 50 measures for increasing productivity. He was also the Director of Research for the Central Bank from 1984 to 1990. He was a Partner with Fontaine Consultores, has been on the board of various companies and was a permanent columnist for the newspaper El Mercurio. During President Piñera’s second term, he was appointed Public Works Minister on March 11, 2018. He led significant investment initiatives in that role totaling approximately US$ 1.4 billion in infrastructure projects designed to accelerate the country’s economic recovery. In June 2019, he was appointed Economy, Development and Tourism Minister, and will be responsible for implementing an active agenda in order to encourage investment, enterprise and productivity in collaboration with the Sustainable Project Management (GPS) and National Productivity and Enterprise (OPEN) offices in order to identify and resolve obstacles that hinder investment in Chile and to improve the regulatory environment, respectively. He is married to María Inés Correa, with whom he has five children. Ignacio S. Galán Chairman and CEO Iberdrola Ignacio S. Galán CBE was born in Salamanca (Spain) in 1950. He graduated as an Industrial Engineer from the ICAI Escuela Superior de Ingeniería of the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid). He holds a Degree in Business Administration and Foreign Trade from ICADE at Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid) and a Degree in General Corporate Management and Foreign Trade from the Escuela de Organización Industrial (EOI) of Madrid. He is Chairman and CEO of Iberdrola, and is also Chairman of ScottishPower, Avangrid and Neoenergia, the country subholding companies of the Iberdrola Group in the UK, the USA and Brazil, respectively. Since he joined Iberdrola in 2001, his vision for international expansion, renewable energies and sustainability has transformed the company into one of the largest in the sector, providing energy to over 100 million people in dozens of countries such as Spain, the United Kingdom, the USA, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, Portugal, Italy or France. Ignacio S. Galán is Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universities of Edinburgh and Strathclyde (Glasgow) in the United Kingdom, and by the University of Salamanca in Spain. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Chairman of the Social Council of the University of Salamanca and a Patron of the Comillas-ICAI University Foundation. He is also on the Presidential CEO Advisory Board of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is a member of the Electricity Cluster at the World Economic Forum (Davos), which he has chaired in the past, of the Steering Committee of the European Round Table of Industrialists and of JP Morgan International Council. Among other recognitions, in 2019 received the Honourable Mention of his professional career by the Official Industrial Engineers Association of Madrid and was designated as Universal Spaniard by the Fundación Independiente. In 2018 he was appointed Honorary Member of the Spanish Institute of Engineering. In 2017 he was named Best CEO in the European utilities sector for the eleventh time by the Institutional Investor Research Group, and he has received the Vocento Business Leadership Award; in 2011 he was named best CEO in the European utilities sector and among Spanish listed companies for investor relations, according to the Thomson Extel Survey; and on three successive occasions (2003-2005) he was given the Best CEO in Investor Relations