High Level Government Officials Attending the ACF
Argentina
Juan Schiaretti
Governor of the Province of Cordoba
Daniel Scioli
Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires
Bahamas
Joshua Sears
Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Belize
Michael Swift
Executive Director, BelizeTrade
Brazil
Erik Camarano
President, Brazilian Competitiveness Movement
Bolivia
Mildred Mariscal
Executive Director General, Ministry of Planning for Development
Chile
Juan Andres Fontaine Talavera
Minister of Economy
Conrad von Igel
Innovation Division Chief, Ministry of Economy
Colombia
Carlos Andres De Hart Pinto
Vice Minister of Enterprise Development
Yelitza Cardenas Rojas
Director of Productivity and Competitiveness
Costa Rica
Luis Liberman Ginsberg
Second Vice President
Ricardo Monge
Technical Secretary of Competitiveness and Innovation
Dominica
Eisenhower Douglas
Director of Trade, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Dominican Republic
Andres Van der Horst
Executive Director, National Competitiveness Council
Ecuador
Nathalie Cely Suárez
Coordinating Minister of Production, Employment, & Competitiveness
El Salvador
Mario Antonio Cerna Torres
Vice Minister of Commerce and Industry
Yax Canossa
Innovation and Technological Development Manager, Ministry of Economy
Grenada
ana McPhail
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Guatemala
Ana Patricia Monge
Executive Director, National Competitiveness Program
Juan Carlos Paiz
General Coordinator, National Program on Competitiveness
Virgilio Cordon
Executive Director, Invest in Guatemala
Dionisio Gutiérrez
CEO, CMI
Haiti
Pierre-Marie Boisson
Executive Committee on Competitiveness
Honduras
Mario Canahuati
Minister of Foreign Relations
Oscar Escalante Ayala
Minister of Industry and Commerce
Jamaica
Karl Samuda
Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce
Reginald Budhan
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce
Mexico
Felipe Duarte Olvera
Under Secretary for Competition & Regul, Secretariat of Economy
Manuel Molano
Director General Adjunto, Mexican Institute for Competitiveness, A.C.
Roberto Newell Garcia
General Director, Mexican Institute for Competitiveness, A.C.
Nicaragua
General (ret.) Alvaro Baltodano
Presidential Delegate for Investment Promotion
Javier Chamorro
Executive Director, PRO Nicaragua
Panama
Juan Carlos Varela
Vice President/Foreign Minister
Roberto Henriquez
Minister of Commerce and Industry
Nicolas Ardito Barletta
General Director, National Center for Competitiveness
Ruben Berrocal
National Secretary of Science, Technology and Innovation
Claudia Guerrero
Director of International Technical Cooperation
Ivan Perez-Venero
Director of Business Innovation
Kristelle Getzler
Secretary of Economy
Jaime Eduardo Aleman
Ambassador of Panama
Peru
Sandra Doig
Executive Director, National Center for Competitiveness, Ministry of Economy & Finance
Luis Valdivieso
Ambassador of Peru
Paraguay
Dionisio Cornelio Borda
Minister of Finance
St. Lucia
Nadia Wels Hyacinth
Director of Investment Coordination
Gale T. C. Rigobert
Senior Advisor, Ministry of Finance
St. Kitts-Nevis
Rosalyn E. Hazelle
Ambassador Extraordinaire Plenipotentiary
Suriname
Margaret Kerkhoff-Zerp
Deputy Director of Industry
Uruguay
Roberto Kreirmerman
Minister of Industry, Energy, and Mines
Fernando Amestoy
CEO, National Research and Innovation Agency
United States of America
Gary Locke
Secretary of Commerce
Kasim Reed
Mayor, City of Atlanta, USA
Pamela Cox
Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank
Deborah Wince-Smith
President and Chief Executive Officer, U.S. Council on Competitiveness
Eduardo Solorzano
President and Chief Executive Officer, Walmart Latin America
Jim Clifton
Chief Executive Officer, The Gallup Organization
Scott Davis
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, UPS
P. Michael McKinley
Ambassador of the United States to Colombia
Robert J. Callahan
Ambassador of the United States to Nicaragua
Phyllis Powers
Ambassador of the United States to Panama
Venezuela
Dunia De Barnola
Executive Director, Venezuela Competitiveness
Enrique Garcia
President, Andean Development Corporation (CAF)