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Dr. Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez, President of GFDD and FUNGLODE, to Deliver Keynote Address at Sixteenth Annual CAF Conference in Washington DC, Hosted by the CAF Development Bank of Latin America, the OAS and the Inter-American Dialogue<\/STRONG> O <\/SPAN>n Wednesday, September 5, Dr. Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez, President of Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD<\/A>) and Fundaci\u00f3n Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE<\/A>) and Former President of the Dominican Republic, will deliver the keynote address during the Sixteenth Annual CAF Conference, hosted by the CAF Development Bank of Latin America, the Organization of American States and the Inter-American Dialogue.<\/P> The conference will take place at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington DC on September 5 from 2:00 pm to 6:30 pm and on September 6 from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm.<\/P> The Sixteenth Annual Conference will address a wide range of topics related to hemispheric affairs, including elections and political trends in Latin America, the implications of the US Presidential Elections on Latin America, Inter-American relations, violence, transnational crime, drugs and the emergence of a new global South.<\/P> The agenda features an impressive list of diplomats, prominent economists and private sector pioneers, and will conclude with an address by Former President of the United States Jimmy Carter.<\/P> Speakers will include: Enrique Garc\u00eda, President of CAF; Jose Miguel Insulza, Secretary-General, Organization of American States; Michael Shifter, President, Inter-American Dialogue; Carla A. Hills, Inter-American Dialogue Co-Chair and CEO, Hills & Company; Chris Alden, Professor, London School of Economics; Changyong Rhee, Chief Economist, Asian Development Bank; Mzukisi Qobo, Professor, University of Pretoria; Lu Bo, Deputy Director, American Economic Affairs, CAITEC; Augusto de la Torre, Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank; Harinder Kohli, President & CEO, Centennial Group; Victor Rico, Special Advisor to the President, CAF-Development Bank of Latin America; Rosario Green, Senator, Mexico; L\u00e1zaro C\u00e1rdenas, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center International Center for Scholars; Ana Mar\u00eda Sanjuan, Professor, Universidad Central de Venezuela; Luis Vicente Le\u00f3n, Director, Datan\u00e1lisis; Dan Restrepo, Former Director of Western Hemisphere Affairs, National Security Council; Clifford Sobel, Former US Ambassador to Brazil; Charles Shapiro, President, Institute of the Americas; Alicia B\u00e1rcena, Executive Secretary, CEPAL; Alejandro Foxley, President, CIEPLAN; Hasan Tuluy, Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank; Santiago Levy, Vice President for Sectors and Knowledge, Inter-American Development Bank; Mois\u00e9s Na\u00edm, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Luciana Le\u00f3n, Member of Congress, Peru; Diego C\u00e1nepa, Secretary to the President, Uruguay; Daniel Mej\u00eda, Professor, Universidad de los Andes; Fernando Carrera, Head of Secretary of Planning, Guatemala; and Alejandro Hope, Director of Project “Less Crime, Less Punishment,” M\u00e9xico Evalua and IMCO.<\/P> To access the official agenda, visit: http:\/\/www.thedialogue.org\/xvi_annual_caf_conference<\/A><\/P> GFDD and FUNGLODE have long-standing relationships with both the Organization of American States and the Inter-American Dialogue, which have resulted in cooperation on numerous conferences, discussion panels and projects. <\/P> Related links: Dr. Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez, President of GFDD and FUNGLODE, to Deliver Keynote Address at Sixteenth Annual CAF Conference in Washington DC, Hosted by the CAF Development Bank of Latin America, the OAS and the Inter-American DialogueNew York, August 23, 2012 O n Wednesday, September 5, Dr. Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez, President of Global Foundation for Democracy and Development … Continue reading “Dr. Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez, President of GFDD and FUNGLODE, to Deliver Keynote Address at Sixteenth Annual CAF Conference in Washington DC, Hosted by the CAF Development Bank of Latin America, the OAS and the Inter-American Dialogue”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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