Latin American Business Cultures

LIC. KATHERINA FERNÁNDEZ Economic Consultant for the House of Representatives National Government of Argentina and Assistant Professor in Economics and Macroeconomics at Universidad del Cema, ArgentinaDR. ROQUE FERNÁNDEZ Former Minister of Economics and Public Works, former Chairman of the Central Bank of Argentina, co-founder and Member of the Board of the University of Cema, member of the National Academic Board of Economic SciencesOTTO NOGAMI Professor of Microeconomics at FAAP and Managerial Economics at Ibmec Sao Paulo, BrazilMARCUS VINICIUS FREITAS Professor of Law and International Relations at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado - FAAPJOSÉ MARIA RODRIGUEZ RAMOS Economics Program Coordinator at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP)LUIZ ALBERTO MACHADO Dean of the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) School of EconomicsHERNÁN FELIPE ERRÁZURIZ CORREA, lawyer, is a partner of the law firm: Guerrero, Olivos, Novoa & Errázuriz, Advisor to the Chilean Foreign Minister; Member of the editorial board and columnist of El Mercurio newspaper; member of the board of Instituto Libertad y DesarrolloRICARDO MONGE-GONZÁLEZ Director of the Technical Secretariat of the Costa Rican Council on Competitiveness and Innovation (CCI) and Professor of Economics at the Costa Rica Institute of TechnologyANA LAURA TORRENTES GARCÍA economist who works as Project's Assistant at the High Technology Advisory Committee Foundation - CAATECDR. ROBERTO B.SALADÍN Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the USALUIS VALENCIA RODRÍGUEZ, Lawyer, Member of the Ecuadorean Foreign Service. Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador of Ecuador to Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Argentina, Permanent Representative to the United NationsMERCEDES DELGADO Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategic Management at the Fox School of BusinessBOBBY J. CALDER Kellstadt Professor of Marketing, and currently the Chair of the Marketing Department, at the Kellogg School of ManagementNICOLÁS ARDITO-BARLETTA President of Asesores Estrategicos, S.A., Chairman of Panama Development Corp, and Director General of the NGO Centro Nacional de Competitividad. Former President of the Republic of PanamaCARLOS STENERI Director of the Debt Management Unit, Ministry of Finance, UruguaySEBASTIÁN SOSA Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF)IGNACIO DE POSADAS Partner at the law firm of Posadas, Posadas & Vecino in Montevideo, and Director at Merrill Lynch, P.F. & S, UruguayALVARO EGUIRON Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.AANTONIO MITRE is Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

• Introduction; R.Crane  & C.Rizowy Regional Organizations, Trade Blocs and Inter-State Conflicts in Latin America: History And Evolution; A.Mitre Argentina; R.B.Fernández  & K.Fernández Brazil; L.A.Machado , J.M.Rodríguez Ramos , O.Nogami  & M.V.Freitas Chile; Dr. Hernán Felipe Errázuriz Costa Rica; R.Monge González  & L.Torrentes García Dominican Republic; R.B.Saladín Ecuador; L.Valencia Rodríguez Mexico; M.Delgado  & B.J.Calder Panama; N.A.Barletta Uruguay; C.Steneri , S.Sosa  & I.De Posadas Spain: Influence, Inspiration, the Roots Of Latin America's Development Process; A.Eguiron Vidarte