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The Agenda, Speakers and Venue

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Panellist: His Excellency

David Gallagher, Ambassador

of Chile to the UK.

Panellist: Susana García-Robles,

Principal Investment Officer,

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

PANEL SESSION IV

 

Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Business School

Auditorium

Panellist: Manuela Picq, journalist, political activist, professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
 

 

NEO-EXTRACTIVISM AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT


 

Panellist: Antonio Celia, visiting professor in practice at LSE, former president of Promigas, former President of the Board for Empresarios por la Educación.

 

Panellist and Moderator: Karen Siegel, Lord

Kelvin Adam Smith Fellow at

the University of Glasgow.

 

REGISTRATION AND WELCOME RECEPTION

 

Time: 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Business School Concourse

 

Argentinian pastries served by Zest Edinburgh.

TAMALES LUNCH RECEPTION

 

Time: 12:00 PM - 13:15 PM
Location: Business School Concourse


Tamales served by Orinoco Latin Food.

(vegetarian and vegan options available)

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND TRADE


 

PANEL SESSION V

 

Time: 13:15 PM - 15:00 PM
Location: Business School

Auditorium

COFFEE AND TEA RECEPTION

 

Time: 15:00 PM - 15:30 PM
Location: Business School Concourse

Panellist: Diego Mora, business

owner and former Secretary of State

of Cundinamarca, Colombia.

 

 

Moderator: Winston Kwon, Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

PANEL SESSION VI

 

Time: 15:30 PM - 16:50 PM
Location: Business School

Auditorium

SUSTAINABLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP


 

WINE AND SCOTCH WHISKY RECEPTION

 

Time: 17:00 PM - 18:00 PM
Location: Business School Concourse

Scotch Whisky provided by the Scotch Whisky Association.

Panellist: Julia Calvert, lecturer in

political economy at the University

of Edinburgh.

 

Panellist: Carolina Arriagada

Peters, Managing Director Cities

and Collaboration.

 

Panellist: Minister Valeria González Posse, Minister
Plenipotentiary and Head of Trade and Investments
at the Embassy of Argentina in the United Kingdom.

 

Moderator: Edward Elliot, Research and Operations Manager at British Foreign Policy Group

 

Panellist: Tom Gatehouse, writer, editor, translator and a member of Latin America Bureau's Editorial Team.

 

CLOSING CEREMONY

 

Time: 16:50 PM - 17:00 PM
Location: Business School

Auditorium

A REVIEW OF THE EDINBURGH LATIN AMERICAN

FORUM AND THE ROLE OF STUDENT INITIATIVES


 

Speaker: Max Aantjes,

President of the Edinburgh

Latin American Forum. 

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