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This session examines globalization, isolation, foreign policy, and national politics, and is part of the third annual Latin America conference which reflects on the economic, political, social and geopolitical impact of COVID-19 for the region, and the response so far.

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The third annual Latin America conference will reflect on the economic, political, social and geopolitical impact of COVID-19 for the region, and the response so far. The discussions will serve as a platform to explore how the pandemic has highlighted structural weaknesses and strengths in Latin American economies, labour markets, political institutions and the social contract between states and citizens – and collectively propose ways governments, multilateral institutions and civil society can begin to reconceptualize and plan for addressing the flaws and fallout demonstrated by the current pandemic and resulting economic crisis.

Discussions will focus on:

  • Latin America and the global economy

  • The impact of COVID-19 on health and social policies

  • Implications of the pandemic on politics and democracy in the region

  • Effects on regional and global relations

  • The region’s challenges post-COVID-19

In addition, there will be roundtable discussions and spotlight sessions on energy policy in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela; US-Latin America and UK relations post Brexit; climate change, and the effects of the pandemic on indigenous and Afro-descendant communities.

This conference is part of the Chatham House LIVE series and will be hosted online and on the record.

The LIVE series will bring together international audiences and enable participants to connect with peers from across the globe. Over the course of each LIVE conference, participants will be able to engage in high-level panel discussions and conversations between policymakers, business leaders and international experts. Other interactive features will include polling and live analysis of results, in addition to live question and answer sessions between participants and speakers.

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Speakers

Michelle Bachelet

President of Chile (2006-10 and 2014-18); UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Alicia Bárcena

Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

Carola Ramon Berjano

Undersecretary for Multilateral and Bilateral Economic Negotiations, Argentina

Professor Victor Bulmer-Thomas

Associate Fellow, US and the Americas Programme

Mauricio Cárdenas

Visiting Senior Research Scholar of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Colombia (2012-18)

Isabel Cavalier

Co-Founder, Transforma; Senior Advisor, Mission2020

Isabel Cavalier, President, Transforma; Senior advisor, Mission2020

Laura Chinchilla

President of Costa Rica (2010-14)

Francis Fukuyama

Senior Fellow, Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI)

Francis Fukuyama, Senior Fellow, Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI)

Ricardo Hausmann

Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School

Dr Yu Jie

Senior Research Fellow on China, Asia-Pacific Programme

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Richard Lapper

Associate Fellow, US and the Americas Programme

Dr Elena Lazarou

Associate Fellow, US and the Americas Programme (based in Brussels)

Santiago Levy

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development Program, The Brookings Institution

Eduardo Loyo

Partner and a Member of Board of Directors, BTG Pactual

Melissa MacEwen

Programme Manager, Energy, Environment and Resources Programme

Vanessa Rubio Márquez

Undersecretary of Finance and Public Credit, Mexico (2016-18)

Vanessa Rubio Márquez, Undersecretary of Finance and Public Credit, Mexico (2016-18)

Guy Mentel

Executive Director, Global Americans

Francisco Monaldi

Director, Latin America Energy Program, Baker Institute for Public Policy; Lecturer in Energy Economics, Rice University

Yascha Mounk

Senior Fellow, SNF Agora Institute; Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Roberto Campos Neto

Governor, Central Bank of Brazil

Roberto Campos Neto, Governor, Central Bank of Brazil

Dr Robin Niblett CMG

Director and Chief Executive

Oswaldo Pedrosa

Former CEO, Pre-Salt Petroleum SA

Eswar Prasad

Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy, Cornell University

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Montserrat Ramiro

Global Fellow, Wilson Center; Commissioner, CRE Mexican Energy Regulator (2014-19)

Carola Ramon Berjano

Undersecretary for Multilateral and Bilateral Economic Negotiations, Argentina

Iván Rebolledo

Managing Partner, Terra-Nova Partners

Michael Reid

Senior Editor, Latin America and Spain, The Economist

Julissa Reynoso

Partner, Winston & Straun

Victor Rico

Secretary General, CAF Development Bank of Latin America

Franz Rojas-Ortuste

Coordinator, Water Agenda, CAF Development Bank of Latin America 

Franz Rojas-Ortuste

Andrés Rozental

Senior Adviser, Chatham House; Former Mexican diplomat; Founding President, Mexican Council on Foreign Relations

Dr Christopher Sabatini

Senior Research Fellow for Latin America, US and the Americas Programme

Arturo Sarukhan

Associate Fellow, US and the Americas Programme (based in the US)

Marta Schoch

Consultant, World Bank

Marta Schoch, Consultant, World Bank

Anastasia Shesterinina

Lecturer in Politics and International Politics, University of Sheffield

Dee Smith

Founder and CEO, Strategic Insight Group

Andrés Velasco

Associate Fellow, US and the Americas Programme; Dean of the School of Public Policy, London School of Economics

Dr Leslie Vinjamuri

Director, US and the Americas Programme; Dean, Queen Elizabeth II Academy for Leadership in International Affairs

Agenda

Monday 16 November (all times are GMT)

1300–1345

Opening Remarks | The Challenges Ahead and What We Are Learning

1345–1400

Networking break

1400–1515

Session One | Latin America and the Global Economy: Proposals for Reform

To what extent do country, regional and global efforts to restart national and the global economies show signs of success or limitation? What have they revealed about structural shortcomings in national economies and the global economy? Has the crisis and potential recovery demonstrated weaknesses in international financial institutions? What proposals are needed for the future?

1515–1600

Networking break

1600–1700

Session Two | Social Policies: What Are We Learning from COVID-19?

What is the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic effects demonstrating about the gaps and fault lines in social policies? Has or can the crisis and its fall-out recast political alliances and demands? How could these gaps and associated inequalities be addressed? What reforms need to be proposed? What are some extra-regional examples?

1700–1730

Networking break

1730–1820

Roundtable Sessions

Participants can choose to attend one of the three roundtables below:

  • Energy Policy in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela

  • Implications of US Elections for Latin America: Can Relations and Norms Be Repaired?

  • The Costs of Climate Change and Risks of Not Adapting: Water, Extreme Weather, Migration and Economics

1820–1840

Networking break

1840–1915

Session Three | Brazil's Economic Policy

1915

End of day one

Tuesday 17 November (all times are GMT)

1330–1345

Session Four | What Have We Learned So Far?

1345–1400

Networking break

1400–1515

Session Five | COVID-19 Politics and Democracy

What has shaped the different political and policy responses to COVID-19 – partisan alignments, leadership, regime-type, social trust, state capacity or all the above? To what extent did these responses and popular sentiment affect democratic checks and balances and human rights protections? How has the aftermath affected politics, partisan alignments, and trust in government?

1515–1545

Networking break

1545–1700

Session Six | The Geopolitics of COVID-19 and Post COVID-19

How has the crisis re-cast the region’s global relations? Which states are now more engaged in the Western world? Which less so? Has China increased its soft and financial power in the region? In specific countries? To what extent has Western power increased or waned in the region? What is the status of multilateral and trade relations that were in the works when COVID-19 unfolded, including UK economic and diplomatic relations post Brexit?

1700–1715

Networking break

1715–1815

Closing Discussion | The Region’s Challenges post-COVID-19: Globalization, Isolation, Foreign Policy and National Politics

1815

End of conference

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