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13th. Edition
Mexico Business Summit
Guadalajara, 25-27 October 2015
Unleashing the power of innovation
Confirmed speakers
By alphabetical order, as of October 7, 2015
Enrique Peña Nieto, President of the United States of Mexico
Stephane Abrial, Senior Executive Vice-President Safran Group, former Supreme Allied Commander of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization, France
Oscar Albin, President, Industria Nacional de Autopartes, Mexico
Miguel Alemán Velasco, Chairman of the Mexico Business Summit, Mexico
Cate Ambrose, President and Executive Director at Latin American Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, USA
Maria Amparo Casar, Professor CIDE, Commentator, Canal 11, Mexico
Manlio Fabio Beltrones, President, CEN, PRI
Sarah Boumphrey, Head of Strategic, Economic and Consumer Insight, Euromonitor International, United Kingdom
Vladimir Bulovic, Professor emerging technology and Associate Dean for Innovation MIT School of Engineering, USA
Michael Camuñez, President and Chief Executive Officer, Manatt Jones, Global Strategies, USA
Agustín Carstens, President, Central Bank of Mexico, Mexico
Gabriel Casillas, Chief Economist & Head of Research, Banorte Bank, Mexico
Fernando Cevallos, Director, Compliance Intelligence, Investigations & Technology Control Risks, Mexico
Woosuk Kenneth Choi, Deputy Business Editor, Chosun Ilbo Group, Korea
Ralph Chow, Regional Director Americas, HKTDC, USA
Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, Secretary of Defense, Mexico
Pedro Joaquín Coldwell, Secretary of Energy, Mexico
César de Anda, Chairman, World Egg Organization, Mexico
Albert D. Díaz, Vice President, Data Center Group and GM PC&SD, Intel
William Duncan, Chargé d’Affaires, US Embassy in Mexico, USA
Luiz Carlos Ferezin, President, Accenture, Mexico
Rafael Funes, Executive Chairman, Lovis United Kingdom
Frédéric Garcia, CEO EADS Mexico, Chairman Executive Council of Global Enterprises, France
Fabian Ghirardelli, Managing Director, Kantar Worldpanel, Mexico
Louise Goeser, President and Chief Executive Officer, Siemens Mesoamérica, Mexico
Daniel Gold, Head, Research and Development, Bureau of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israel
Ricardo Gómez Quiñones, President, Kaxan Media Group, Mexico
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Steve Greenlee, President, ExxonMobil Exploration Company, USA
Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal, Secretary of Economy, Mexico
Antoine Halff, Senior Fellow and Director, Global Oil Markets Research Program, Colombia/SIPA, Center on Global
Energy Policy, USA
Luis Alberto Harvey MacKissack, Co-founding Partner and Senior Managing Director, Nexxus Capital, Mexico
Manuel Herrera Vega, President, CONCAMIN, Mexico
Edna Jaime, Director General, México Evalúa, Mexico
Claudia Jañez, President & Chief Executive Officer, DuPont Mexico, Centro America y Caribe, Mexico
Mercedes Juan López, Health Secretary, Mexico
Margarita Luna Ramos, Supreme Court Justice, Mexico
Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize Economic Science, Professor of Economics, Princeton University, USA
Brian MacCraith, President, Dublin City University, Ireland
Allan McCrea Steele, Chief Executive Officer, Latin America, President & Chief Executive Officer, Argentina, Edelman,
Argentina
Santiago Maciás, General Director, National Committee of Productivity and Technological Innovation (COMPITE),
Mexico
Nicolás Mariscal Servitje, Chief Executive Officer, Grupo Marnhos, Mexico
Ricardo Medina, Director General, Megahabilidades, Mexico
Marcelo Melchior, President & CEO, Grupo Nestlé Mexico, Mexico
Julio Millán Bojalil, President, Grupo Coraza Corporación Azteca, Mexico
Ary Naīm, Country Manager, IFC, Mexico
Erik Oswald, Vice President of the Americas, ExxonMobil Exploration Company, USA
José Alberto Peña, Vice President & Director General, GSK, Mexico
Shimon Peres, Former President of Israel, Israel
Ignacio Perez, Partner-In-Charge, Heidrick & Struggles Mexico, Mexico
Ingo Ploeger, International President, CEAL, Brazil
Eswar Prasad, Senior Fellow, Global Economy & Development, The Brookings Institution, USA
Clyde Prestowitz, President, The Economic Strategy Institute, USA
Dan Restrepo, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress, USA
Jaime Reyes, Innovation Secretary, State of Jalisco, Mexico
Luis Robles Miaja, Chairman, BBVA Mexico and President of the Bankers Association of Mexico, Mexico
Jacques Rogozinski, Director General, Nacional Financiera, Mexico
Carlos Rojo, Banco Interacciones, Mexico
Alec Ross, Senior Fellow in International & Public Affairs Columbia University, former Senior Advisor for Innovation to
Secretary of State Hilary Clinton
Sandra Sánchez y Oldenhage, Director General
Probiomed, Mexico
Aristotéles Sandoval Diaz, Governor of the State of Jalisco, Mexico
Jeffrey Schott, Senior Fellow, The Peterson Institute for International Economics, USA
Armando Senra, Managing Director Head of Latin America & Iberia Region, Blackrock Inc., Mexico
Oded Shoseyov, Professor Protein Engineering and Nano-Biotechnology, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture,
Food and Environment, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Claude Smadja, President and Founder, Smadja & Smadja, Switzerland
Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz, Secretary of the Navy, Mexico
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Pamela Starr, Director US/Mexico Network, University of Southern California, USA
Luiz Tellez, Member of the Board, Bombardier, Mexico
Manuel Trajtenberg, Director, Secondary Education System, Israel
Diego Valadés, Investigator, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, UNAM, Mexico
Arturo Valenzuela, Senior of Advisor for Latin America, Covington & Burling, LLP; Professor of Government,
Georgetown University; Former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs in the first Obama
Administration, USA
Luis Vázquez Sentíes, Co-Founder CEO & Chairman, Grupo Diavaz S de RL de CV, Mexico
Eitan Wertheimer, Former Chairman of the Board IMC Group, Israel
Alfonso Záráte, President, Grupo Consultor Interdisciplinario, Mexico
José María Zas, President Global Card Services Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Latin America, American Express &
president, American Chamber of Commerce, Mexico
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