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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
 

Vittorio Corbo
President of the Board, Central Bank of Chile



       

He is Chairman of the Board of the Central Bank of Chile since May 2003.

He is Commercial Engineer graduated from University of Chile and he received a PhD degree from MIT in 1971. He is full professor at the Institute of Economy from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (since 1981 until today).

Also, he is a Board member of the Chilean Pacific Foundation, and member of the International Advisory Board of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE) in Warsaw, Poland; and from 1999 until today, at the Consultative Council of the Stanford Center for International Development. Since last year he is member of the Chief Economist Advisory Council of the World Bank.

Mr. Corbo was Chief of the Macroeconomic Adjustment and Growth Division of the World Bank (1984-1991), Professor of Economics at Concordia University in Canada (1972-1981), Professorial Lecturer in Economics at Georgetown University in the USA (1984-1991) and member of the Executive Board of the African Economic Research Consortium with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya (1992-1996), Vice President of the International Economic Association (1998-2002), and member of the Council of the Econometric Society (1998-2001).

He was a frequent consultant for the World Bank, IDB and the International Monetary Fund. He was also economic advisor for the Santander-Chile Group (1991-2003), Director of Santander-Chile Bank (1995-2003), of Universia-Chile (2000-2003), member of the Board of Directors of the Global Development Network (1999-2003) and he has been Consultant for major domestic and international corporations (1979-1984 and 1991-2003).

He was recently a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform of Stanford University (January/February 1999) and a Visiting Senior Scholar at the Research Department of the IMF (January/February 2000).

He has worked in more than 10 countries, lecturing in seminars in more than 20 countries and in major universities around the world. He is author and editor of nine books and more than one hundred articles published in specialized international economy books and journals.

He is a well recognized specialist in macro economy, international trade, adjustment and economic development. He is also member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Development Economics, and the Journal of Applied Economics.

Mr. Corbo is Chilean, married with two children.