As Lawyer, he has worked as a Professor of Constitutional Right at the University of Alcala in Madrid and at the Diplomatic School of Spain. He has developed several missions as an international observer of the United Nations Organizations and the European Union.

Before joining the Telefonica Group, he previously held important positions in the Urquijo Bank, in the Hipotecario Bank and the Caixa of Barcelona.

President of Lola Films, the most prolific and awarded filming company in Spain, which also was a shareholder of Telefonica.

Director of Sogecable, leader of paid TV in Spain, third in Europe and pioneer in introducing the digital television in the European market. Director of Antenna 3 Television, public television channel.

He has served as President of Telefonica Chile since May 2006 and in December 2008 he became Head of Public Affaires and Institutional Relations of Telefonica Latin America.

Javier Treviño
Senior Vice President for Corporate Communications and Public Affairs - CEMEX

As Corporate Communications and Public Affairs VP at CEMEX, since March 2001, Javier Treviño combines a business career with more than a decade of high-level government, communication and foreign affairs experience.

A native of Monterrey (Mexico), Treviño began his public service career in 1987 as director of planning in Mexico's Education Ministry, and later worked as a special adviser to the Press Secretary for the President of Mexico.

From 1989 to 1993, Treviño was posted to the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C., where he served as Spokesman and Minister for Press and Public Affairs during the period of negotiations that led to the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Returning to Mexico in early 1993, Treviño became a close adviser to then-Secretary of Social Development Luis Donaldo Colosio and joined Mr. Colosio's presidential campaign team later that year as strategy adviser and speechwriter. In April 1994, Treviño was appointed adviser on international relations in Mr. Ernesto Zedillo's successful presidential campaign.

Treviño served in top posts in the Zedillo administration, including three years as Under-Secretary for International Cooperation at the Foreign Ministry, and two years as Deputy Secretary for Administration at the Finance Ministry.

Javier Treviño is a Vice President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Board of several prestigious academic organizations and think-tanks, including the Institute of the Americas, the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Trust for the Americas (OAS), the Center for Transformation and Strategic Initiatives, as well as the Advisory Board of Arizona State University’s North American Center for Transborder Studies.

He teaches public policy at Tecnológico de Monterrey’s Graduate Public Policy School, he is also a bi-weekly columnist at the newspaper El Norte, and a guest commentator on the TV channel of Televisa Monterrey and the news program “Hoy por Hoy” of W Radio, Mexico’s leading radio station.

Javier Treviño holds a B.A. degree in International Relations from El Colegio de Mexico and a Master in Public Policy degree from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Barbara Anderson
General Editor, Revista Expansión, Mexico

Barbara Anderson (35) took the helm at Expansion Magazine in the last months of 2008. She is the first woman in the top spot of the magazine's structure in 40 year in the market.
Anderson started working in Expansion in 2002 as assistant editor. She took a leading role in redesigning the publication two years after that and she also supervised the launch of the various offsprings Expansion produced, such as Best Management, Best Marketing, Best Leadership, Education Special and Smart Money (quarterly personal finance magazine).

Barbara takes an active role in the daily work at the magazine. She published some of the most remembered articles based on deep and thorough investigation: the exclusive interview of Alberto Bailleres (after 37 years of media silence), the Los Tigres del Norte business phenomenon, a detailed roundup of the activities of Alonso Ancira (AHMSA) and the reinvention of Victor Gonzalez Torres, better known as Dr. Simi, king of generic medications.

Today she is actively involved as a columnist in the web portal of the group in Mexico, CNNExpansion.com, with a weekly video and daily written columns. She also is an active guest in the morning news shows in nationally syndicated radio.

Barbara's career started 6,000 miles south of her current office: in Cordoba, Argentina. She studied journalism and quickly specialized in business reporting, working first as a field reporter, and later moving to editing in Mercado and Punto a Punto magazines. In the year 2000 she was awarded an internship in the Economy section of El Pais journal in Madrid, Spain and a year later she worked establishing the Miami, FL branch of Punto a Punto magazine. After that she moved to Mexico.

A native of Waterloo, Ontario, Sherry Noble joined Export Development Canada (EDC)
in 1977. Since that time, she has held positions of increasing responsibility in the
Communications, Treasury, and Medium- and Long-Term Financial Services groups.

From August 1995 to 2000, Ms. Noble was Vice-President of the Engineering and
Professional Services Team, responsible for providing financial support to Canadian
exporters and investors in the power, mining, infrastructure and services industries. In June
2000, she headed up Structured Finance, specializing in the fields of project financing and
political risk insurance.

Ms. Noble was appointed Senior Vice-President of the newly formed Business Solutions and
Technology Group in July 2003. This group brings together EDC’s information technology,
business systems and e-commerce teams. In this role, she is focussing on furthering
technology and business synergies to help respond to stakeholder demands for increasingly
responsive, reliable access to EDC’s trade financing information and services.

Ms. Noble has an undergraduate degree in Science in Language (French and Spanish)
and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Ottawa.

EDC is Canada’s export credit agency, offering innovative commercial solutions to help
Canadian exporters and investors expand their international business. EDC’s knowledge
and partnerships are used by more than 8,300 Canadian companies and their global
customers in up to 200 markets worldwide each year. EDC is financially self-sustaining and
is a recognized leader in financial reporting, economic analysis and has been recognized
as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for eight consecutive years.
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Fernando Campero was born in Bolivia in 1955. He successfully developed financial, commercial and technological ventures in areas such as securities brokerage (Saxxon Capital), boutique investment banking (Socimer Bolivia), software development (ATI), and consumer-product distribution (PROESA).

In 1989 he conceived and developed TELECEL, the first cellular telephone company in Bolivia. He served as its CEO and Chairman of the Board until 1998 when he sold his interests in the company.

He has worked extensively in Bolivia both as a concerned citizen and as a public servant. In 1987 he participated in the design and management of the Emergency Social Fund, a world pioneer in social interventions. In March 1992 he joined the Paz Zamora administration as Minister of Exports and Economic Competitiveness. From 1996 to 2001 he served as a private-sector Board member at the Bolivian Central Bank. In 1999, he published the book “Bolivia in the Twentieth Century – The Shaping of Contemporary Bolivia” with the Harvard Club of Bolivia. He is co-founder of PRISMA, a nonpartisan and independent think-tank and co-founder of the weekly newspaper PULSO which addresses Bolivian public issues. In 2005, he created FUNDACION NUEVO NORTE, a non profit organization that promotes the development of productive capacities in western Bolivia.

He earned an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 1980, an M.S. degree in Economics at the Université de Lausanne in 1982, and an M.P.A. degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 1986.

Fernando Campero is currently Chairman of Saxxon Finance, a private investment company, Vice Chairman of UPB, the top-ranked university in Bolivia, and Chairman of FUNDACION NUEVO NORTE.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BP Trinidad and Tobago, a company that accounts for natural gas sales of approximately two billion cubic feet daily and approximately 25 per cent of the national crude oil production of the twin island Caribbean state. It is a position he has held since October 2001, but he was effectively leader of the company since September 2000 as Chairman of BP Amoco, the predecessor company.

BP Trinidad and Tobago is one of six major “profit centers” of the BP Group, which is one
of the world’s largest petroleum and petrochemical companies. The company contributes 10% of the group’s world wide production.

Under Riley’s leadership the Trinidad business has grown from 200 million barrels of oil equivalent daily (mboed) to approximately 400 mboed and is poised to grow to 500 mboed in the next two years.

Riley is dedicated to national development through the growth of the petroleum industry and has been at the forefront of the expansion of Trinidad and Tobago’s gas industry. Before becoming Chairman, Riley was the Business Unit Leader of the company’s West Business Unit. Prior to that he was the company’s Vice President responsible for Law and Government Affairs.

Riley has worked in the petroleum industry since 1991, with a one year break from May 1995 to April 1996, when he served as General Counsel and Company Secretary Worldwide at Trinidad and Tobago’s national airline, BWIA.

Riley is a graduate of the University of the West Indies with degrees in Agriculture and Law. He was awarded the Chaconia Gold medal (National Award) for his contribution to national economic development in Trinidad & Tobago in 2003.

Guillermo Perry was Chief Economist of the Latin America and Caribbean region of the World Bank  from  August 1996 to October 2007. Prior to joining the World Bank, Mr. Perry served in several senior policy-making positions in his native country, Colombia: he was Minister of Finance and Public Credit (August 1994 - April 1996); Minister of Mining and Energy (1986 - 1988); Director of National Taxes (1974 - 1976); and Deputy Director of the Departamento Nacional de Planeación and Secretary General of the  Consejo Nacional de Política Económica CONPES, 1970-1972. He was also a Member of the Constitutional Assembly (1991) and of the Senate of the Republic (1990). He is currently a Research Associate at Fedesarrollo, a colombian think tank, a Non Resident fellow at the Center for Global Development, an Advisor to the President of the Andean Corporation and teaches at Universidad de los Andes, in Bogotá, Colombia.

Mr. Perry has been a member of the Governing Body of GDN (2000-2006), the Executive Committee of LACEA (2002/2005) and the Board of Directors of Fedesarrollo (1996-2006), Universidad de Los Andes (1992-2000), Ecopetrol (1986-1988), ISA (1986-1988), Banco de Bogotá (1982-1986) and several other private companies in his home country. He is currently a Board Member of Banco de Bogotá and  Colgener.

Mr. Perry was Director of two of Colombia’s leading economic think-tanks:  FEDESARROLLO (1988 - 1989) and Center for Economic Development Studies (CEDE), 1972 – 1974. Mr. Perry has been professor at Universidad de los Andes and Universidad Nacional de Colombia.He was a partner and Manager of aMejia, Millan and Perry (1978-1986), a consultancy firm on energy and financial issues that worked across Latin America.

He has had a broad international consulting experience,  mostly on public finance and energy issues. Mr. Perry holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Operational Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mr. Perry is coauthor or coeditor of several books: “Beyond Lending: how can Multilateral Development Banks help reduce volatily”, (CGD, 2009); “Latin American Response to China and India”, (World Bank, 2008); “Prudence or Abstinence: Fiscal Policy, stabilization and Growth in Latin America” (World Bank, 2007); Ïnformality in Latin America: Exit or Exclusion”, (World Bank, 2007); From Vicious to Virtuous Circles: Growth and Poverty Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean” (World Bank, 2006); “Beyond the City: the Rural Contribution to Development” (World Bank, 2005); “Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Breaking with History? “ (World Bank, 2004); “Closing the Gap in Education and Technology” (World Bank, 2002); “From Natural Resources to the Knowledge Economy” (World Bank, 2001); “Fiscal Reform and Structural Change in Developing Countries” (McMillan, 2001); “Securing Our Future in a Global Economy” (World Bank, 2000); “Chile: Lessons and Challenges” (World Bank Institute, 2000); “Beyond the Center: Decentralizing the State”, (World Bank, 1999); “Banks and Capital Markets in Latin America” (World Bank, 1999); “Beyond The Washington Consensus:  Institutions Matter” (World Bank, 1998); “Towards Open Regionalism” (World Bank, 1998); “Dealing with Public Risk in Private Infrastructure” (World Bank, 1997); “Currency Boards and External Shocks: How Much Pain, How Much Gain?” (World Bank, 1997);  “The Long March: A Reform Agenda for Latin America in the Next Decade” (World Bank, 1997); “Public Finance, Stabilization and Structural Reform in Latin America”, (IDB, 1993); “Oil, Economics and Environment” (Fedesarrollo, Fescol, 1990);  “Labor Unions and Economic Policy” (Fedesarrollo, Fescol, 1985); “Ten Years of Tax Reform in Colombia” (Fedesarrollo, 1984).

He has also published numerous articles on macroeconomics, fiscal policy, financial policy, international finance and energy policy issues.

Born in Bogota, Colombia on October 13, 1945, Mr. Perry is married to Claudia Saenz Obregon.  He and his wife have two children, Juana and Antonio.