2012 Latin American Cities Conferences: Bogota

Alberto J. Bernal-León is head of Macroeconomic Strategy Emerging Markets Research at Bulltick, LLC. He is also a columnist for LatinTrade Magazine, Alto Nivel Magazine, and the Colombian newspaper La República. Previously, Mr. Bernal was managing director of emerging mixed...

Mauricio Cárdenas is the minister of finance of Colombia. Previously, Cárdenas served as the minister of mines and energy of Colombia. He was also the executive director of the Fundación para la Educación Superior y el Desarrollo (Fedesarrollo) in Bogotá from 2003 to 2008...

Sergio Clavijo is the executive director of the Asociación Nacional de Instituciones Financieras (ANIF). He also serves as vice chairman on the board of directors of the Stock Exchange of Colombia, and as president of the Investments Committee of the Colombian Private Pension...

Javier Diaz is the president of Analdex (National Association of Exterior Commerce), in Colombia since June 1997. Prior to working for Analdex, he served as chief of the Development Division of Foreign Trade for the External Commerce Vice-presidency of the National Association of...

Juan Carlos Echeverry is the a founding partner of Econcept, Bogotá and Washington, DC, an economic consultancy with over 12 years of experience in macroeconomic analysis, public policy design and evaluation, and microeconomic research in Latin America. We provide macroeconomic...

Miriam Garcia Ferrer is the current Commercial Counsellor of the European Union Delegation in Colombia. The objectives of her work in the country are to contribute to closer economic and trade relations between Colombia and the EU and especially supporting the ratification and...

Hernando José Gómez is the current czar of FTAs, a newly created position under President Santos’ administration. Before that, he was the head of the National Planning Department and previously the Head of the Private Board of Competitivity. Gomez was the Chief Negotiator of the...

Victor Herrera is the office head of Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services’ Mexico City office. In this position, he is responsible for overseeing all the domestic and international activities of the Mexico City office related to the rating of a broad spectrum of debt issuers across...

Nader Nazmi is the director of Economics Research Latin America at BNP Paribas. Prior to his current position, Mr. Nazmi joined the Institute of International Finance (IIF) in 2004 where he was deputy director of the Latin America Department. Before joining the IIF, he was...

Jason Press is an equity strategist and vice president for Global Emerging Markets and Latin America at Citi Investment Research and Analysis (CIRA). He is also a member of the Equity Research Oversight Committee (EROC). Jason joined Citi in April 2006, and his work involves...

Susan Segal was elected president and CEO of the Americas Society and Council of the Americas in August 2003 after working in the private sector with Latin America and other emerging markets for over 30 years. A passionate supporter of Latin America, she joined the organizations...

Leonardo Villar is the director of Fedesarrollo, the principal private research center in Colombia. Previously, he was chief economist and vice president of development strategies and public policy at the Corporacion Andina de Fomento (CAF) based in Caracas. In the public sector...