Fifth Annual Latin America Conference
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
InterContinental Hotel
Versailles Room
100 Chopin Plaza
Miami, Florida
7:45 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
7:45 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. – Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:15 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. – Conference and Luncheon
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Conference Agenda
7:45 a.m. – Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:15 a.m. – Welcome Remarks:
Susan Kaufman Purcell, Director, Center for Hemispheric Policy
8:20 a.m. – Opening Speaker:
Arturo Valenzuela, Assistant Secretary, Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State
8:50 a.m. – Featured Speaker:
Augusto de la Torre, Chief Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean, The World Bank
9:20 a.m. – The Social, Economic and Political Agenda for the Region
Panelists:
Graciana del Castillo, Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University, New York
Carlos Alberto Montaner, Journalist and Writer, Madrid
Michael Shifter, President, The Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, D.C.
10:30 a.m. – Featured Speaker:
H.E. Gabriel Silva, Minister of Defense, Republic of Colombia
11:00 a.m. – Coffee Break
11:15 a.m. – Featured Speaker:
Hon. Carmen Lomellin, U.S. Permanent Representative, Organization of American States
11:45 a.m. ? U.S.-Latin America Relations under the Obama Administration
Panelists:
Carlos Gutiérrez, Non-Resident Scholar, Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami; Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
James Spalding, Dean, School of Economics and Foreign Relations, Universidad Americana, Asunción, Paraguay; Former Ambassador of Paraguay to the United States
Alexander F. Watson, Managing Director, Hills & Company, Washington, D.C.; Former Assistant Secretary, Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State
12:55 p.m. – Closing Speaker:
Hon. Peter Kent, Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas), Government of Canada
1:25 p.m. – Break for luncheon
Luncheon Program
1:30 p.m. – Luncheon served
2:15 p.m. – Luncheon Speaker:
H.E. Porfirio Lobo, President, Republic of Honduras
3:00 p.m. – Conference concludes
For more information, please call Isabel Artime at (305) 284-9918, or visit our website at www.miami.edu/chp .