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Conference: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

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Latin American Business Conference 2018

Experts and rising game changers in public policy, tech, and social entrepreneurship will speak in a series of panels about the current reality of social change and business in Latin America.

Registration: 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Conference: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

AS/COA
680 Park Avenue
New York
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This event is $40 for members and $75 for non-members. Member tickets are exclusively available to YPA, CBS LABA, and NYU LABA. Join as a Silver YPA member today and receive complimentary access to the event. (Once you buy your Silver membership, you’ll get an email with your conference ticket.)

Every year, Young Professionals of the Americas (YPA), Columbia Business School (CBS), and New York University (NYU) come together to organize the Latin American Business Conference. For over ten years, the Latin American Business Associations (LABA) at CBS and NYU Stern have positioned their Latin American Business Conference as one of the most anticipated forums to discuss the pressing issues, challenges, and achievements of the region.

For its 2018 edition, LABA organizations join forces with YPA—an initiative of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas—to organize the Latin American Business Conference 2018. The event will bring together current and rising leaders from Latin America for a full-day conference. Experts and rising game changers in public policy, tech, and social entrepreneurship will speak in a series of panels about the current reality of social change and business in the region. Attendees will have the opportunity to network with these leaders, dive into regional and global trends, and be part of an ongoing dialogue.

Speakers:*

  • Alberto Bernal, Chief Emerging Markets and Global Strategist, XP Securities @AlbertoBernalLe
  • Duncan Caird, Head of Infrastructure, Energy & Export Finance for the Americas, HSBC @HSBC
  • Alejandro Camino, Chief Marketing Officer, Softtek @globalnearshore
  • Alessandro Carlucci, Former CEO, Natura @naturanet_
  • Juan Carlos Echeverry, Partner, Econcept; Former CEO of Ecopetrol and Former Finance Minister of Colombia
  • Federico Eisner, Managing Partner, Bain & Company Argentina @feisner
  • Robert Kartheiser, Partner, Paul Hastings @Paul_Hastings
  • Duda Kertész, President, U.S. HealthE, Johnson & Johnson Consumer @JNJNews
  • Alonso Martinez, Senior Lecturer, Columbia Business School @Columbia_Biz
  • Mark McCombe, Head of Americas Region, BlackRock @blackrock
  • Arturo Sarukhan, Former Ambassador of Mexico to the United States @Arturo_Sarukhan
  • Susan Segal, President & CEO, Americas Society/Council of the Americas @s_segal
  • Claudia Sender, President, LATAM Airlines Brazil @LATAM_BRA
  • Roberto Egydio Setubal, Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors, Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A. @itauunibanco_ri
  • Roberto Simon, Political Risk Director for Latin America, FTI Consulting @robertosimon
  • J.J. Stranko, Client Experience Lead, McKinsey and Company @extranjero
  • Alana Tummino, Executive Director, Young Professionals of the Americas @AlanaTummino
  • Carolina Wilson, Reporter, Bloomberg News @caroewilson
  • Camila Zuluaga, Program Director and Journalist, Claro, Caracol Radio @ZuluagaCamila

*Additional speakers to be confirmed.

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8:00 to 9:00 a.m.   Registration & Continental Breakfast

9:00 to 9:15 a.m.   Opening Remarks

  • Alana Tummino, Executive Director, Young Professionals of the Americas 

9:15 to 10:00 a.m.   Keynote: Latin America in the Global Economy

  • Mark McCombe, Head of Americas Region, BlackRock

10:00 to 10:45 a.m.  Panel: Made in LatAm – From Latin America to the World
Panelists will discuss how Latin American companies have succeeded across various industries, competing on a global scale with technology, human capital and R&D.

  • Alessandro Carlucci, Former CEO, Natura
  • Alejandro Camino, Chief Marketing Officer, Softtek
  • Federico Eisner, Managing Partner, Bain & Company South America
  • Alonso Martinez, Senior Lecturer, Columbia Business School (moderator)

*Additional panelists to be confirmed.

10:45 to 11:00 a.m.   Coffee and Networking Break

11:00 to 11:45 a.m.  Fireside Chat: Leadership Insights from Roberto Setubal
The speaker will share his story leading some of the most successful financial services companies in Latin America, and give his views on how the region's financial landscape has changed over the last years and how he sees it going forward.

  • Roberto Setubal, Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors, Itaú Unibanco
  • Hosted by Susan Segal, President & CEO, Americas Society/Council of the Americas

11:45 to 12:30 p.m.  Panel: Infrastructure Bottlenecks in Latin America
Panelists will discuss Latin America’s infrastructure challenges, the economic and social impact that the recent corruption scandals have had in the development of projects in the region, and provide insights as to the next steps that the different stakeholders can take to reactivate project financing.

  • Juan Carlos Echeverry, Partner, Econcept, and former CEO of Ecopetrol and Minister of Finance of Colombia
  • Robert Kartheiser, Partner, Paul Hastings
  • Duncan Caird, Head of Infrastructure, Energy & Export Finance for the Americas, HSBC
  • Carolina Wilson, Reporter, Bloomberg News (moderator)

*Additional panelists to be confirmed.

12:30 to 1:30 p.m.   Lunch & Table Leader Session

1:30 to 2:15 p.m.   Panel: Empowering Female Leaders in Latin America

  • Claudia Sender, President, LATAM Airlines Brazil
  • Duda Kertész, President, Johnson & Johnson Consumer, U.S. HealthE
  • J.J. Stranko, Client Experience Lead, McKinsey (moderator)

2:15 to 3:00 p.m.  Panel: Elections in LatAm – Will the Pendulum Swing Again?
Panelists will discuss the regional electoral calendar as three major economies, Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia go to the polls to choose a new president and a new direction.

  • Alberto Bernal, Chief Strategist, XP Securities
  • Roberto Simon, Political Risk Director for Latin America, FTI Consulting
  • Arturo Sarukhan, Former Ambassador of Mexico to the United States
  • Camila Zuluaga, Program Director and Journalist, Claro, Caracol Radio (moderator)

3:00 to 3:15 p.m.   Closing remarks

  • Alberto Garrido, Vice President, LABA, Columbia Business School
  • Gabriel de Souza Barbosa, President, LABA, NYU Stern School of Business

4:00 to 6:00 p.m.   Happy Hour - TBD

10:00 to 2:00 a.m.   After Party at Magic Hour

  • Drink specials for YPA and LABA members from 10 - 12

Speakers

Alberto Bernal
Chief Emerging Markets and Global Strategist, XP Securities

Alberto Bernal is chief emerging markets and global strategist at XP Securities. Prior to this, he was head of research and partner at Bulltick, LLC and managing director of emerging fixed income research at Bear Stearns Inc. responsible for covering Latin America. Previously, he...

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Duncan Caird
​Head of Infrastructure, Energy & Export Finance Americas, HSBC

Duncan Caird is the head of Infrastructure, Energy & Export Finance Americas at HSBC, and managing director of IRG HSBC New York. Caird joined HSBC in 2006 and led the Americas team in advisory, project, and export financing strategy for key clients with a focus on cross-border...

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Alex Camino
Chief Marketing Officer, Softtek

Alex Camino joined Softtek in 1995 and today he leads the organization’s marketing and communications efforts worldwide as CMO. His team has contributed to making Softtek one of Latin America’s most successful IT brands, bringing the nearshore industry to global prominence in the...

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Alessandro Carlucci
Former CEO, Natura

Alessandro Carlucci currently serves on the Advisory Board of CBS’ Deming Center/ECLA advisory board. He worked for Natura Cosmetics for 25 years, the last 10 as its CEO. In the early 90s Alessandro assumed executive positions in relationship marketing shortly before assuming the...

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Juan Carlos Echeverry
Partner Econcept; Former CEO of Ecopetrol and Former Finance Minister of Colombia

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...

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Federico Eisner
Managing Partner, Bain & Company Argentina

Federico Eisner is the managing partner of Bain & Company in Argentina. Eisner has worked extensively with leading local and international companies in Argentina, advising them on full potential transformation, corporate and business unit strategy, M&A, organization redesign and...

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Robert Kartheiser
Partner, Paul Hastings

Robert Kartheiser is a partner in the Latin America practice and chair of the firm's Global Project Finance practice at Paul Hastings. Kartheiser has worked for 25 years—roughly equally for lenders and for borrowers—in financings, restructurings, and infrastructure development...

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Duda Kertész
President, U.S. HealthE, Johnson & Johnson Consumer

Duda Kertész is president of U.S. HealthE at Johnson & Johnson Consumer. Prior to her current experience, Kertész lead the J&J Consumer Business in Brazil for five years, leading the second largest operating unit of J&J globally. Kertész is a global co-leader for Women’s...

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Alonso Martinez
Senior Lecturer, Columbia Business School

Alonso Martinez is a senior lecturer at Columbia Business School. He combines teaching and research with extensive global experience doing strategy consulting, with particular expertise in emerging markets. He gives the "Catching Growth Waves in Emerging Markets" course in both...

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Mark McCombe
Head of Americas Region, BlackRock

Mark McCombe is a senior managing director and head of the Americas region at BlackRock. McCombe is responsible for driving the growth of BlackRock's businesses in the U.S., Canada, Latin America, and Iberia. He is a member of BlackRock's Global Executive Committee and its Talent...

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Arturo Sarukhan
Former Mexican Ambassador to the U.S.

Arturo Sarukhan is the founder and president of Sarukhan + Associates, a strategic consulting firm in Washington, DC. He is a an adjunct professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University and distinguished visiting professor at the Annenberg...

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Susan Segal
President and CEO, Americas Society/Council of the Americas

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...

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Claudia Sender
President, LATAM Airlines Brazil

Claudia Sender is president of LATAM Airlines Brazil and vice-president of Customers LATAM Airlines. Previously, she served as TAM Airlines’ President since May 2013. Sender joined the company in December 2011, as Commercial and Marketing vice-president. After June 2012, with the...

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Roberto Setubal
Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors, Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A.

Roberto Setubal is co-chairman of the board of Itaú. He started his career at the bank in 1980, having held various positions until being appointed as CEO in 1994, role held until 2017. Setubal is a member of the International Monetary Conference. From 1997 to 2000, he was the...

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Roberto Simon
Senior Director for Policy and Head of the Anti-Corruption Working Group, AS/COA

Roberto Simon is the senior director for policy and head of the Anti-Corruption Working Group at Americas Society/Council of the Americas and the politics editor for Americas Quarterly. Previously, Simon served as the lead Latin America analyst at FTI Consulting’s Geopolitical...

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J.J. Stranko
Client Experience Lead, McKinsey and Company

J.J. Stranko is a client experience lead at McKinsey and Company, developing new service lines and capabilities for clients. Before joining McKinsey, he spent several years doing Latin America-focused work and consulting with organizations across the private and nonprofit sectors...

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Alana Tummino
Senior Director of Policy, Americas Society/Council of the Americas and Senior Editor, Americas Quarterly

Alana Tummino is senior director of policy at Americas Society/Council of the Americas and a senior editor of Americas Quarterly magazine. Among her roles, she heads the AS/COA Cuba Working Group and is executive director of the organization’s Young Professionals of the Americas...

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Carolina Wilson
Reporter, Bloomberg News

Carolina Wilson is a journalist at Bloomberg News who is currently covering exchange-traded products on the Americas stocks team. Prior to that, Wilson covered Latin America on the emerging markets team for Bloomberg, focusing mostly on fixed income and currencies, with a special...

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Camila Zuluaga
Program Director and Journalist, Claro, Caracol Radio

Camila Zuluaga is one of the most recognized TV and radio journalists in Colombia. Zuluaga is a radio journalist at W Radio Colombia and presents the program Camila Sin Filtro for Claro Colombia. Zuluaga was also a columnist for the newspaper El Pueblo de Cali, an interviewer for...

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