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Vittorio Corbo Chairman of the Board of the Central Bank of Chile
  
 
Roberto Canessa  
Uruguayan survivor of the Andes Mountains plane accident in 1972, talking about “Leadership in times of crisis and/or extreme situations”
   
 
Daniel Kaufmann
Director of Global Governance
World Bank Institute
    
 
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Chairman and Chief Mentor
Infosys Technologies
     
 
Cyril de Bournet
Managing Director
Casa Lapostolle Winery
   
 
Soumitra Dutta
Dean of Executive Education
INSEAD
  
 
Eric K. Clemons
Professor
The Wharton School
    
 
George S. Day
Professor
The Wharton School
      
 
Lourdes Casanova
Lecturer at INSEAD
   
 
Gary Burtless
Senior fellow, Economic Studies program, Brookings Institution
   
 
Olivia S. Mitchell
Professor
The Wharton School
   
 
Mauricio González
Gordon
President of Spanish Wine Federation, FEV, CEO of Gonzalez Byass owner of Tio Pepe Shery, Beronia (Rioja) and Altozano wine.
    
 
Anthony Hamilton-Russell
Propietor of Hamilton Russell Vineyards, South Africa
  
 
Robert Mangels
Chairman
Mangels Industrial
   
 
Andrés Navarro
Presidente
Sonda   
  
 
Joseph Msays
 General Manager, IGS Public Sector for Asia Pacific
  
 
Bruce Catania
Managing Director, Head of Citigroup Venture Capital International - Latin America
  
 
José Piñera
Former Minister of Labor and Social Security
  
 
Hernán Büchi
Former Finance Minister
Counselor for Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo
   
 
Joseph Harari
Director Credicorp Bank and Compañía Internacional de Seguros
   
 
J. Antonio Baltodano
Chairman and Chief Executive Officier, Mercon Coffe Corporation
   
 
Laird Pendleton
Founder, Cairnwood Cooperative Corporation and Chairman, Wharton Global Family Alliance Advisory Board
   
 
Raffi Amit
Professor Wharton School
   
 
Julio de Quesada
Managing Director Banamex
   
 
Carlos Franz
Chilean novelist
   
 
Jaime Chico Pardo
General Director Telmex
   
 
Luis Rivera Novo Chief Executive Officer Endesa Internacional S.A.
   
 
Shiv Khemka
Director SUN Group
   
 
Ricardo Zabala
Board Member AFP Habitat
   
 
Francisco Tomic
Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Vice President for Human Development, Codelco, Chile
   
 
Oscar Von Hauske
Director, Telmex, México
   
 
Martin Mayer-Wolf
Managing Director, Nidera S.A.
   
   
 
SPEAKERS
 

Carlos Franz
Chilean novelist



       

Carlos Franz (b.1959) studied law at the University of Chile (Santiago), graduating with first honors in 1981. From 1980 to 1984, he was fellow member of the literary workshop conducted by José Donoso. In 1997 he founded and directed the National Library Literary Workshop in Santiago, which was an important seeding ground for a new generation of Chilean writers. In the year 2000, he won the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) scholarship, and was invited as Writer in Residence in Berlin, by the DAAD-Berliner Künstler Programm. In 2001 he moved to the United Kingdom, invited as Visiting Fellow of the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. The next year he became Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Spanish and Spanish American Studies Department, King’s College, University of London. Currently he lives in Madrid.

Franz’ first novel, “Santiago Cero” (Seix Barral, 3d. edition, 1997), won the CICLA Prize for Latin American Novels, in 1988.

His second novel, “El lugar donde estuvo el Paraíso” (Planeta, 3d. edition, 1998), was first runner up in the 1996 Planeta Latin American Prize, and translated into 8 languages. This novel was also made into a film in Spain.

His third novel, “El desierto”, was awarded the International Prize La Nación-Sudamericana 2005, in Buenos Aires.

Several of his short stories have been published in Chilean and Latin American anthologies, most recently in “A whistler in the night world” (Plume, New York, 2002).

Franz also authored a collection of literary essays, “La muralla enterrada” (Planeta, 2001), for which he was awarded the Premio Municipal de Ensayo, Santiago, Chile, 2002.

Franz regularly contributes to several Latin American and Spanish newspapers and journals: El País and Letras Libres, in Spain; Qué Hacer, in Lima; Brecha, in Montevideo; and La Tercera, in Chile, among others.

He is married and father of a daughter.