FEATURING:

• Joao Vale de Almeida
  Ambassador, Head of Delegation, Delegation
  of the European Union to the United States
• Josep Colomer
  Prince of Asturias Distinguished Visiting Professor,
  Department of Government, Georgetown University
• Helena Rego
  Director, Portugal Intelligence Agency and
  Representative of the Transatlantic Democratic Institute
• Ricardo Leite
  Member of Parliament, Portugal
• Milton Correia de Sousa
  President of the Executive Commission, Estoril Conferences
• Bernardo Corrêa de Barros
  Advisor to the Council of Cascais
  
• Moderated by: Ricardo Ernst
  Managing Director, Latin American Board and Georgetown professor

Wednesday, April 25 at 3:30pm
Fisher Colloquium, 4th floor Hariri Bldg.

For more information, please contact latinamericanboard@georgetown.edu

HOSTED BY:

Estoril Conferences
Georgetown Latin American Board
McDonough Global Student Association

Thursday, April 19

Location – Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center, Salon H

Dress code for every event: Business professional

Schedule:

9:00am – 12:00 pm: Career Fair – Companies will be at their booths available to answer any questions, discuss summer internships, full-time employement, and to share Human Resources personnel contact information.

1:00pm – 2:00pm: Panel I – Getting a job in Latin America.

Learn about Latin American recruitment process.

Moderator: Mike Schaub, Executive Director of the Georgetown Career Education Center

2:00pm – 3:00pm: Panel II – Work culture in Latin America.

Come listen to the experiences of professionals who have worked in Latin America

Moderator: Rosie O’Neill, Counselor of the Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy

3:00pm – 4:00pm: Panel III – Latin American emerging markets

Participate in a discussion about jobs and market trends with top CEO’s and executives from Latin America

Moderator: Ricardo Ernst, Managing Director of the Latin American Board

Panelists:

Alberto Beeck – Peru

Chairman of the Georgetown University Latin American Board and Director of Virgin Hotels and Partner of VH Properties and VH Investments.

Dionisio Gutierrez Mayorga – Guatemala

Co-President of Corporación Multi Inversiones (CMI), a large agro-industrial conglomerate which is one of the most powerful corporations in Central America.

Alvaro Fernandez Garza – Mexico

President and CEO of Alfa S.A.B de C.V. He has been Member of the Company’s Board of Directors since April 2005, and also acts as Member of the Finance Committee of the Company. Mr. Fernandez holds an MBA from Georgetown University.

Gally Mayer – Costa Rica

VP of business development for JVP, one of Israel’s leading venture capital groups. Mrs. Mayer also serves on the board of Urban Zen Foundation and the Making Waves Foundation.

For more information, contact: latamfair@gmail.com or visit: http://latamconference.com/

Sponsored by:

Latin American Student Association (LASA)

Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS)

Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

GAMBLE

Georgetown Career Education Center

Latin American Board (LAB)

Latin American Business Association (LABA)

McDonough Global Student Association (MGSA)

McDonough School Office of MBA Career Management

The Latin American Board and the European Business Association invite you to a lecture:

A European Perspective: The Arab Spring and Policy toward Latin America

With special guest:

Bernardino Leon

E.U. Special Representative (EUSR) for the Southern Mediterranean

Date: March 22, 2012
Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Location: 440 Hariri Bldg. (Business School)

Bernardino Leon became a Spanish diplomat in 1989. He was first posted to Liberia in 1990-1991, where the devastating civil war focused his professional interest in understanding the underpinning causes of ethnic violence.

Since then, his political and diplomatic career has been mainly devoted to the Arab world. In 1991, he was part of a short mission to Libya in the context of establishing the international embargo against that country. From 1992-1995, he was posted to Algeria where he lived the process after the elections, de coup d’etat and the subsequent violence. He was then posted to Greece, where he followed the end of the conflict in Bosnia and the Balkans region and the negotiations and implementation of the Dayton Agreement. During this period he traveled frequently to Turkey and followed its political and social evolution very closely.

In 1998, at the outset of the CFSP, he became personal adviser to the EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process, Miguel Angel Moratinos, at the time when the Wye Accords were being negotiated. He remained until 2001, during the Taba Accords negotiations (which were contained in the “Morations Document”) and the set up of the Quartet on the Middle East. His mission was primarily focused in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel and Palestine.

In 2001, he became head of the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation, which is a Moroccan-Spanish institution for dialogue and mutual understanding among the different cultures and religions in the Mediterranean. During this period, he worked very closely with governments and civil society representatives. That was the case of Tunisia, for instance, where he worked with members of the opposition.

In 2003, Edward Said, Daniel Barenboim and Bernardino Leon, founded the Barenboim-Said Foundation, which focused on the West Eastern Divan orchestra for young musicians from the Arab countries of the Middle East and Israel.

From 2004-2008, he became secretary of state for foreign affairs at the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. He is particularly proud of having helped launch the Alliance of Civilizations, which is an initiative proposed by PM of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, at the 59th General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) in 2005. It was co-sponsored by the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The initiative seeks to galvanize international action against extremism through the forging of international, intercultural and interreligious dialogue and cooperation. The Alliance places a particular emphasis on defusing tensions between the Western and Islamic worlds. During this period, he worked very closely with Arab countries and was particularly involved in the negotiations between Cyprus and Turkey.

In 2008 he was appointed secretary general at the Spanish Prime Minister’s Office, which involves, among other responsibilities, the role as the main foreign policy advisor to the Prime Minister of Spain.

The Latin American Board Ambassadors will serve as partners and guides for GCL participants, who come from Latin America, Spain and Portugal, to provide them a more in-depth experience at Georgetown University.

Ambassadors will be required to take their “partner” to at least 2 on-campus events, introduce them to at least one professor, and invite to at least one campus social activity.

The Program is open to current undergraduate and graduate students at Georgetown University. Please apply by filling out this quick application form. If selected, you will participate in an orientation and special launch event to meet your GCL partners.

Applications must be submitted by January 19, 2012. If you have any questions and/or comments please contact: latinamericanboard@georgetown.edu.

Presented by Dr. Alan Fox (USITC) and Dr. Pilar Londoño-Kent (World Bank)

How effective has NAFTA been in promoting efficient border crossing? Join us to hear more about a recent study that analyzes diverse practices and regulations at the busiest U.S.-Mexico border crossing point of Laredo.

Monday, November 21, 2011
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Hariri 350

Please RSVP by emailing Mauricio Flores (mf426)

Georgetown University’s Latin American Board and the Latin American Student Association invite you to meet:

Albina Ruiz
Executive Director, Ciudad Saludable (Healthy City)

Date: November 10, 2011
Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: 250 Hariri Bldg. (Business School)

You can learn more about her organization, Ciudad Saludable here:
http://www.ciudadsaludable.org/en/profile/whoweare.html

Get a first-hand look at her efforts through this video.

RSVP on our Facebook event page.

The Georgetown European Business Association and the Latin American Board present “Lessons From Doing Business in Emerging Markets: The Success of Telefonica in Latin America.” This program is part of the school’s Distinguished Leaders Series.

Date: November 1, 2011

Location: Rafik B. Hariri Building Fisher Colloquium

Time: 5 p.m.

This event is open to all Georgetown students, faculty and staff.

To RSVP, please click here.

Georgetown University’s Latin American Board was proud to have been a part of the first Latin America Leadership Summit which was dedicated to strengthening the Georgetown community in Latin America, engaging alumni leadership, mobilizing young social entrepreneurs and developing innovative opportunities for collaboration among the University’s networks throughout the region.

Participants left with renewed motivation and commitment to continue to develop the Georgetown community in the region. To view the full agenda, click here.

Some of the special guests included:
(in alphabetical order)

Keynote Speakers:

-          Mr. Luis Miguel Castilla, Minister of Finance and Economy of Peru
-          Mr. Salomón Lerner Ghitis, Prime Minister of Peru
-          Mr. Alejandro Toledo, former president of Peru

Special Guests:

-          Alberto Beeck, Chairman, Latin American Board
-          Roberto Dañino Zapata, GLS’95, Former Prime Minister of Peru
-          Mr. A. Michael Fitzpatrick C’81 , Deputy Chief of Mission
-          The Honorable Rose M. Likins, U.S. Ambassador to Peru
-          José Augusto Palma, LLM’92, Legal Vice-president, Hochschild Mining PLC

Georgetown Faculty and Administration:

-          Rev. Matthew Carnes, SJ – Assistant Professor, Department of Government – Georgetown University
-          Dr. Ricardo Ernst, Managing Director, Latin American Board; Professor, Georgetown School of Business
-          Gail Griffith, F’72, S’81, Director, Alumni Relations, Office of  Advancement
-          Dr. Erick Langer, Director, Center for Latin American Studies
-          Dorothy Mayer, Director of International Student Services, Georgetown Law Center
-          R. Bartley Moore, SFS’87, Vice-President of Advancement, Sr. Advisor to the President, and Lead of Latin America Strategy, Georgetown University

Special thanks to the Georgetown Club of Peru for hosting the events and welcoming all the Hoyas to Lima!

PHOTOS:

You can see pictures of the event on the Latin American Board Facebook page

You can see pictures from the event on our Facebook photo album.

Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: Hariri 155

To RSVP, please click here.

Co-Sponsored by: