Program
8:30 a.m.: FIU in DC is open to conference participants and the audience (coffee and pastries)
9:00 a.m.: Welcoming remarks by Dr. Shlomi Dinar, Dean of the Green School at FIU
9:15 a.m.:Keynote Speaker: Thomas Shannon, former U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, and Senior International Policy Advisor, Arnold and Porter
10:00 a.m.: Break
10:15 a.m. Panel I: The Changing World Order
How have changes in the world order of the last few decades transformed foreign policies in the Americas?
Moderator
Dr. Anthony W. Pereira, Director, LACC at FIU
Panelists
Martin Redrado, former head of the Central Bank of Argentina and Chief Economist, Fundacion Capital
Michael Shifter, former President and senior fellow, Inter-American Dialogue
Cynthia Arnson, Distinguished Fellow and former Director of the Latin America Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Eric Hershberg, Emeritus Professor and former director, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, American University
11:30 a.m.: Break
11:45 a.m.: Panel II Rising Tensions and Multipolarity
How have rising geopolitical tensions and increasing multipolarity transformed foreign policies in the Americas?
Moderator
Guillermo Areas, Government Relations, BMW
Panelists
Martha Barcena, Former Mexican Ambassador to the US, fellow, Atlantic Council's Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center (via Zoom)
Richard Feinberg, former White House, State Department and Treasury official and professor at UCSD; professor at School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego
Hussein Kalout, Advisory Board member, Brazilian Center for International Relations, Rio de Janeiro, and Research Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Valerie Wirtschafter, fellow in foreign policy, Brookings Institution
1:00 p.m.: Lunch
2:00 p.m.: Panel III Inter-American Collaboration
In which policy areas have states been able to collaborate to face common challenges, and what more could be done to find constructive convergence in foreign policies?
Moderator
Dr. Gabriela Hoberman, Director of Academic Programs, LACC at FIU
Panelists
Gustavo Martinez, Managing Director, Head of Public and International Affairs, CARI in Argentina
Stan Gacek, Senior Advisor for Global Strategies, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
Jennifer Garcia, Global Foundation for Democracy and Development, Dominican Republic
Greg Howell, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau of Latin America and the Caribbean, USAID
3:15 p.m.: Break
3:30 p.m.: Panel IV Latin American – US Relations
Where are Latin-American-U.S. relations producing positive outcomes, and where is there a lack of understanding and/or conflict?
Moderator
Dr. Carlos Diaz-Rosillo, Director, Adam Smith Center at FIU
Panelists
Donna Hrinak, former U.S. Ambassador in Latin America
Federico Rojas de Galarreta, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, University of Chile
Guillermo Enrique Obando, Fellow in the Institute for Political and Strategic Studies (IDEPE), Lima, Peru
Moises Rendon, Director, Washington at Americas Society/Council of the Americas
4:45 p.m.: Final Remarks
5:30 p.m.: Reception
