Bogota 2015 Blog: Colombia's Economic Outlook Roundup

• Ragnhild Melzi, Senior Director, Public Policy Programs and Corporate Relations, Americas Society/Council of the Americas, Welcoming remarks
• Leonardo Villar, Executive Director, Fedesarollo, "External Outlook and the Effects on the Colombian Economy"
• Sergio Clavijo, President, ANIF, "Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook"
• Mauricio Cárdenas, Minister, Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, "Recent Fiscal Results and Outlook"

AS/COA’s Ragnhild Melzi opened the nineteenth annual Bogota conference, the longest-running in the Latin American Cities Conferences series. In her remarks, the senior director called Colombia one of the most important countries for foreign investors. She noted that foreign investors are more optimistic about a country’s growth potential than the people who live in them in the day-to-day, and that, from abroad, the measures of fiscal measures and management undertaken by the Santos government are seen favorably.