FT-Paul Hastings: Latin America in the New Global Economy
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Time Warner Center, New York

The emerging markets of Latin America are at the forefront, along with Asia, of the global rebalancing of economic growth that is marking the New Century. This shift from the developed to the developing world is opening up major strategic opportunities for US corporates and financial investors in a region that generally combines the benefits of rich natural resources, a rising middle class and a relatively well-educated workforce with the challenges presented by insufficient and under-financed infrastructure and still under-developed capital markets. 

The Financial Times and Paul Hastings will bring together senior economists, financial and corporate decision-makers and key advisors to share their insights on the investment and expansion opportunities in Latin America's growth markets and the challenges that need to be overcome for those opportunities to be maximized.

Key Discussion Topics Included:

• How the macro-economic outlook will impact Latin American markets
• Which sectors and countries offer the most promising opportunities for investment across the region
• How the evolving regulatory environment in Latin America and the U.S. will affect investor behavior
• Whether the region's fundamentals are strong enough to overcome the impact on sentiment of short-term financial instability
• If the concept of a regional common Latin American market such as the burgeoning Pacific Alliance between Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Peru is transformational or over-hyped

Keynote Speakers:

                                                                          
               Ernesto Zedillo                                                                         Juan Carlos Echeverry
               Director                                                                                      Executive Director for Colombia and Peru
               Yale Center for the Study of Globalization                         Inter-American Development Bank
               Former President of Mexico                                                 Former Finance Minister of Colombia                

Speakers Include:

Michael Fitzgerald Partner and Chair, Latin America Practice Paul Hastings	Andrés Gluski President and CEO AES
Adele Gulfo President Pfizer Latin America	Gerardo Mato President, Global Banking & Capital Financing - Americas HSBC
Alejandro Werner Director, Western Hemisphere Department International Monetary Fund	Jonathan Wheatley Deputy Emerging Markets Editor Financial Times