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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
 

Hernán Büchi
Former Finance Minister
Counselor for Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo



       

Mr. Büchi, Civil Engineer of Universidad de Chile, postgraduate studies at Columbia University, New York.

Mr. Büchi has served for the government of Chile as Undersecretary of the Economy (1979-80), Undersecretary of Health (1980-83), Minister of Planning (1983-84), Superintendent of Banks and Financial Institutions (1984-85) and Minister of Finance (1985-89).

During all this period the Chilean economy was structurally transformed through the promotion of the private initiative, free markets and a more outward-looking orientation. Also, the external debt crisis was successfully left behind before anybody in the region and Chile was a world leader in the initiation of a deep and revolutionary process of privatization, not only of public enterprises but also of the social security system, the provision of health, education, etc. As a result, it was possible for the Chilean economy to exhibit a sustained increase in exports, domestic savings and investment as a fraction of GDP, and to achieve a general high standard of efficiency. In essence, the foundations were created during this period for nearly fifteen year, of high growth in Chile.

Mr. Buchi also in its capacity as public official (1979-89) was Chairman of the Board and/or Member of the Board of several Public Enterprises such as ENDESA (power company), CAP (steel), IANSA (sugar), FFCC (railway) and CTC (telephone company), Codelco (Mining).

In 1989 he was Candidate for the Presidency of Chile.

In 1990 Mr Buchi founded and became Chairman and Member of the Board of the Institute Liberty and Development (a think-tank for public policies). In its current capacity, he is Chairman of the Board of the Center for the International Economy of Liberty and Development and Member of the Board of said Institute. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of “Universidad del Desarrollo”.

Since 1990 Mr. Buchi has advised a number of different governments of Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia on the design and management of economic policy. Also, he is a member of the board of some of the most important private companies in Chile.