Paracas city in Peru will host the most important business event in Latin America, the CEO Leadership Conference: Business Summit of the Pacific Alliance – Leading the Growth, due to take place on July 1-2 2015.
The event will bring together business and government leaders from Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, according to the commission in charge of the organization.
The business summit will address challenges in the integration process in order to consolidate the economic growth and competitiveness of the Alliance at the international level.
The event will be held on the sidelines of the Pacific Alliance Presidential Summit.
Expected at the business summit will be presidents of Chile, Michelle Bachelet; Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos; Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto; and Peru, Ollanta Humala Tasso.
Peruvian speakers include Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Magali Silva; Economy Minister, Alonso Segura; Production Minister, Piero Ghezzi; and Education Minister Jaime Saavedra.
Also present at the meeting will be the creator of the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index, Xavier Sala i Martin; IDB President, Luis Alberto Moreno; CAF CEO Enrique Garcia; Mexico’s Comce President, Valentin Diez Morodo; and Colombian Stock Exchange President, Juan Pablo Cordoba.
Hochschild Mining President Eduardo Hochschild; Backus CEO Fernando Zavala; Banco de Credito del Peru CEO Walter Bayly; Graña y Montero CEO Mario Alvarado Pflucker; and the President of the Peruvian Chapter of the Pacific Alliance Business Council (CEAP), among others.
The topics to be discussed include: Pacific Alliance Progress and Perspectives, Innovation: Value Creation Tool in the Pacific Alliance and, Vision of the Pacific Alliance Economic and Financial Integration.
Other topics to be addressed are: Challenges to Improve the Pacific Alliance economic and social competitiveness, Businessmen’s role in the Pacific Alliance economic growth leadership and, Pacific Alliance: Vision of the Future.
The Pacific Alliance is an economic, trade and financial integration initiative created on April 28, 2011 by Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru and aimed at overcoming socio-economic inequality and achieving greater social inclusion of their inhabitants.
One of its objectives is to move gradually toward the free circulation of goods, services, capital and persons.
As a whole, it is considered to be the eighth largest economy and exporting entity worldwide.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, the bloc accounts for 37% of the GDP, concentrates 50% of total trade and attracts 45% of direct foreign investment flowing to the region.
The four countries total a population of 214 million people and its capital and financial markets as a whole equal the size of Brazil’s.
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Published: 6/17/2015