Fifth Annual Latin America Conference

 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 .

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