Mexico Summit 2018 | The Economist | 6 September 2018 | The St. Regis Mexico City, Paseo de la Reforma 439, Cuauhtémoc, 06500 Miguel Hidalgo, CDMX, Mexico

This year's Mexico Summit will be focused on the outcome of the 2018 Mexican presidential elections, which will yield a new leader who will serve a six-year term, in addition to 500 new members of the Chamber of Deputies and 1228 members of the senate.

The event will examine the state of Mexican politics after what promises to be a fraught transition of power, with an emphasis on how the new president – largely predicted to be Andrés Manuel López Obrador – will assume the reins.

• What will become of the important energy reforms instituted by Enrique Peña Nieto?
• How will the new president handle the ever-sensitive NAFTA negotiations?
• What insights from Obrador’s tenure as mayor may be used to predict his policies as a future president?
• How will he (or Margarita Zavala, if she is elected as president) address Mexico’s evergreen challenges: inequality, unemployment, corruption, and harness the areas in which it is best-poised to thrive: manufacturing, fintech, entrepreneurship, higher-value exports, renewable energy, competitive healthcare R&D clusters?The Economist Events offers a truly global perspective on a country’s place in the world and its future outlook. With the newspaper’s characteristic clarity and wit, these summits offer fresh and challenging perspectives on the opportunities for the region.

The Economist Events offers a truly global perspective on a country’s place in the world and its future outlook. With the newspaper’s characteristic clarity and wit, these summits offer fresh and challenging perspectives on the opportunities for the region.

Join us and you will:

• Network with more than 200 policymakers, senior business leaders, entrepreneurs and leading thinkers
• Engage in a day of high-level discussions around the future of Mexico as a digital giant
• Join like-minded organizations invested in defining the future of Mexico

2018 Speakers

Graciela Márquez Colín
Incoming secretary of the economy, Mexico

Yvonne Stinson Ortíz
Minister representative, Mexican Ministry of Economy in Canada

Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal
Mexican secretary of the economy

Juan Carlos Zepeda
President commissioner, The National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH)

Juan Carlos Garcia
Global eCommerce and Omnichannel Director, Grupo Elektra

Qiu Xiaoqi
Chinese Ambassador to Mexico

Earl Anthony Wayne
Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico

Ana María Salazar
Political analyst

Federico Gomez Schumacher
General manager, PayPal Hispanic Latam

James Qiao
President, Huawei FusionSolar LATAM,

Antonio Ortiz-Mena
Senior vice president, Albright Stonebridge Group

Gabriela Siller
Director of analysis, Banco Base

Denise Dresser
Political analyst

Gabriela Zapata Alvarez
Senior Consulting Associate, Bankable Frontier Associates

David A. Shirk
Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of San Diego

Jesus Alan Elizondo Flores
General director of financial systems, Banco de México

Roberto Martinez
Chief executive, Nearsoft

Alvaro Anzola
General Manager for Gas Power Systems, GE Latin America and the Caribbean

Tomas Bermudez
Mexico Country Representative, The Inter-American Development Bank

Andres Millan Drews
Chief investment officer / Co-Head China-Mexico Fund, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Jared Miller
Chief executive, LenddoEFL

Thayde Olarte
Vice president of fintech partnership LATAM, Scotia Bank

Marcela Torres
Co-founder and Chief Executive of Hola-Code

Fermin Bueno
Co-founder and managing partner, Finnovista

Juan Navarrete
Director of the division on financial inclusion, Fundación Capital

Soffia Alarcon Diaz
Director, Carbon Trust Mexico

David Arana
Chief executive, Konfio

Moisés Tiktin Nickin
Director General de Banca Privada, Mercados e Internacional, Monex

Rony Garcia
Partner, Deloitte Mexico

Ignacio de la Vega
Dean, EGADE Business School of the Tecnológico de Monterrey

Stefan Lepecki
General Director, Braskem Idesa

Hisashi Matsuda
President, Mizuho Bank México

2018 Sponsors

PLATINUM SPONSORS
• Grupo Financiero Monex
• Deloitte

SILVER SPONSOR
• Braskem Idesa

EXHIBITOR SPONSORS
• Egade Business School Technologico de Monterrey
• FEMSA

PR AGENCY
• GCYA Guerra Castellanos & Asociados Comunicacion Estrategica

SUPPORTING ASSOCIATIONS
• The Business Year
• Aporta
• U-GeOBe Technologia en Gobierno
• Camebra
• Finnovista
• Mexico Business Publishing
• SE Seretaria De Economia
• Pro Mexico
• Zumma+ Energy Consulting
• Oxford Business Group
• MassChallenge Mexico
• China Chamber of Commerce and Technology Mexico