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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
 

Lourdes Casanova
Is Lecturer at INSEAD in the Asian Business and Comparative Management Department and specializes in international business with a focus on Latin American business
   

    
  

She has a Masters degree from the University of Southern California and a PhD from the University of Barcelona. She has taught at INSEAD since 1989 and has been a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley from 1996 - 1999. She also manages INSEAD’ s relationships with corporations in Latin America. She is a consultant to the Inter American Development Bank.

She has taught in and directed different executives programs at INSEAD for managers from European and Latin American firms. Her research is on winning strategies for Latin America with a special focus on the Ibero-American “natural market”. Her recent research projects have investigated strategies of companies from Asia, Europe, and US for entering Latin American markets and the responses of Latin American firms to global competition and deregulated economies.

Central in the above research is the broader question of the future role of Latin America in the global economy. Will Latin America become a key player in the global economy? Or will Latin America remain a peripheral player, always with potential, but never a player in its own right? What should Latin American governments do to “bridge the gap” with developed nations?