Mexico City Conference - Mexico 2016: Challenges and Opportunities for Growth

New York, May 12, 2016—In 2012, President Enrique Peña Nieto introduced a series of constitutional reforms aimed at opening up the energy sector for private investment, promoting competition in telecommunications, and restructuring the labor market and education sector. Americas Society/Council of the Americas, in partnership with ProMéxico, will hold their annual Mexico City conference, this year entitled “Mexico 2016: Challenges and Opportunities for Growth,” on Friday, May 13, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The conference will bring together senior public officials and private-sector leaders to examine the effects of the country’s structural reforms as well as ways to boost investment and productivity. This conference will be webcast live.

Speakers at the conference will include: Ildefonso Guajardo, Secretary of the Economy, Mexico; José Antonio Meade, Secretary of Social Development, Mexico; Miguel Messmacher, Undersecretary for Revenues, Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit, Mexico; Nicolas Amaya, Vice President and General Manager, Breakfast & Snacks, Latin America, Kellogg Company; Juan Carlos Elorza, Director of Productive and Financial Development, CAF-Development Bank of Latin America; Francisco N. González, CEO, ProMéxico; Marcos Gunn, President Northern Latin America Region and COO Latin America Region, Chubb Group; Donna Hrinak, President, Latin America and Caribbean, Boeing; Ernesto Marcos, Founding Partner, Marcos y Asociados; Patricia Menéndez-Cambó, Vice President, Greenberg Traurig; Ali Moshiri, President of Africa and Latin America Exploration and Production Company, Chevron; Alejandra Palacios, Chairwoman, Mexican Federal Economic Competition Commission; Juan Ignacio Rubiolo, President and CEO, AES Mexico; and Susan Segal, President and CEO, Americas Society/Council of the Americas.

This conference is organized in collaboration with Asociación Mexicana de Capital Privado A.C. and Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales.

• Visit as-coa.org/Mexico2016 for the complete agenda, blog, and live webcast of the conference.
• The webcast begins Friday, May 13, 2016, at 9:00 a.m. local time (10:00 a.m. ET).
• Get live updates on Twitter via #mxASCOA and @ASCOA.

Tune into the live webcast here.

2016 Latin American Cities Conferences – Mexico City
Mexico 2016: Challenges and Opportunities for Growth

Friday, May 13, 2016
Registration: 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Presentations: 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

The St. Regis Hotel
Paseo de la Reforma 439
Cuauhtémoc, Cuauhtémoc, C.P. 06500
Mexico City
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Press inquiries:
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