CORPORACIÓN ANDINA DE FOMENTO (CAF)

12th ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON

TRADE AND INVESTMENT IN THE AMERICAS

September 10 and 11, 2008

Washington, DC

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW

Second Floor, Root Room

Preliminary Agenda

BOLD = Accepted Invitation
Wednesday, September 10

12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Private Luncheon for Speakers: The U.S. Presidential Elections

First Floor, Choate Room

·  Eugene Robinson, Washington Post

·  Nita Lowey, U.S. Representative (D-NY)

2:00 – 2:15 p.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks

Second Floor, Root Room

·  Enrique García, Corporación Andina de Fomento

·  José Miguel Insulza, Organization of American States

·  Peter Hakim, Inter-American Dialogue

2:15 – 4:00 p.m. The Region’s Economic Outlook

Moderator: Miguel Castilla, Corporación Andina de Fomento

·  Brian O’Neill, U.S. Department of the Treasury

·  Joyce Chang, JP Morgan Chase & Co.

·  Hugo Beteta, Inter-American Development Bank

·  José Fajgenbaum, International Monetary Fund

·  Miguel Rodríguez, Formerly of the Central Bank of Venezuela

4:15 – 6:00 p.m. The Impact of Surging Food and Energy Prices on Latin America’s Social Agenda

Moderator: Mauricio Cárdenas, Brookings Institution

·  Nora Lustig, Elliot School of International Affairs

·  Nancy Birdsall, Center for Global Development

·  Francisco Ferreira, World Bank

·  Augusto de la Torre, World Bank

·  Santiago Levy, Inter-American Development Bank

·  Carlos Iván Degregori, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos

6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Reception at the Art Museum of the Americas

Organization of the American States

201 18th Street, NW (between Virginia Avenue and C Street)

·  José Miguel Insulza, Secretary General, Organization of American States

·  Carla Hills, Former U.S. Trade Representative and Board Co-chair of the Inter-American Dialogue

·  Thomas Shannon, U.S. Department of State

·  John Veroneau, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

·  Members of Congress:

o  Eliot Engel, U.S. Representative (D-NY)

Thursday, September 11

8:00 – 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 10:45 a.m. U.S. Politics

Moderators: Peter Hakim, Inter-American Dialogue and Enrique García, Corporación Andina de Fomento

·  Members of Congress:

o  Representative Gregory Meeks (D-NY)

·  On Obama: Dan Restrepo, Center for American Progress

·  On McCain: Otto Reich, Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs

10:45 Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Energy Challenges

Moderator: Genaro Arriagada, Former Minister of the Presidency, Chile

·  Jeff Davidow, Institute of the Americas

·  Joel Velasco, UNICA

·  Armando Zamora, Agencia Nacional de Hydrocarburos

·  Carlos Villegas, Ministry of Hydrocarbons and Energy, Bolivia

·  Santos RamirezValverde, Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos

·  Alí Rodríguez Araque, Ministry of Finance, Venezuela

·  Bernard Mommer, Ministry of Hydrocarbons, Venezuela

·  Bernardo Álvarez, Embassy of Venezuela to the United States

·  Brazilian: Genaro Arriagada’s suggestion

12:45 – 3:00 p.m. Working Luncheon: The Upcoming 2009 Summit of the Americas

Moderators: Peter Hakim, Inter-American Dialogue and Enrique García, Corporación Andina de Fomento

·  José Miguel Insulza, Organization of American States

·  Luis Alberto Rodríguez, National Secretariat for the V Summit of the Americas, Trinidad and Tobago

·  Luis Alberto Moreno, Inter-American Development Bank

3:15 – 5:30 p.m. Internal and Regional Political Developments in Latin America

Moderator: Ana Mercedes Botero, Corporación Andina de Fomento

·  Adam Isacson, Center for International Policy

·  Peru: Diego García-Sayan, Comisión Andina de Juristas

·  Venezuela: Ambassador Roy Chaderton, Venezuelan Mission to the

o  Ana María Sanjuán, Universidad Central de Venezuela

·  Ecuador: Cesar Montufar, Centro Andino de Estudios Internacionales

·  Bolivia: Carlos Camargo, United Nations Development Programme, Bolivia

o  Juan Ramon Quintana, Ministry of the Presidency, Bolivia

·  Colombia:

o  Alfredo Rangel, Fundación de Seguridad y Democracia

o  Fernando Cepeda, Embassy of Colombia in France

o  Jaime Bermúdez, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Colombia

o  Rodrigo Pardo, Cambio

·  Brazil:

o  Possibility: Luiz Fernando Furlan, Former Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Brazil

·  Heraldo Muñoz, Ambassador of Chile to the United Nations

5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Closing Reception

Second Floor, Root Room Reception Area