To celebrate the Institute of the Americas\u2018 25th anniversary an impressive panel of speakers will join us at a Nov. 15 conference for a thought-provoking journey into the future. On that evening, former President Ernesto Zedillo will keynote a gala anniversary dinner.
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\nLatin America: The Next 25 Years will be the focus of the day-long conference with \u201cDavos style\u201d discussions by the following experts:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Mack McLarty, Former U.S Special Envoy to the Western Hemisphere
\n\u2022 Enrique Garcia, President of the Andean Development Corporation (CAF)
\n\u2022 Roberto Suro, Professor, USC Annenberg School for Communication
\n\u2022 Diego Arria, Former U.N. Security Council President
\n\u2022 Luis Rubio, Director of the Center of Research for Development (CIDAC) in Mexico City
\n\u2022 Donna Hrinak, Senior Director for Latin America Government Affairs, PepsiCo, and former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia and the Dominican Republic
\n\u2022 Pamela Starr, Faculty Fellow, USC Center for Public Diplomacy
\n\u2022 Ricardo Hausmann, Director, Center for International Development, Harvard University
\n\u2022 Paulo Sotero, Brazil Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution
\n\u2022 Ana Julia Jatar, Venezuelan human rights defender, Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University
\n\u2022 Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Fellow, Center for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law, Stanford University
\n\u2022 Admiral James Stavridis, Commander, U.S. Southern Command<\/p>\n