IEFA Global Forum 2019 - Miami | International Economic Forum of the Americas | 1 April 2019 | Biltmore Hotel, 1200 Anastasia Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33134, USA

The World Strategic Forum is presented by the International Economic Forum of the Americas. Its mission is to address the major governance challenges of the new world economic order, focusing on the central role of the Americas and in the global market. The objective of the World Strategic Forum is to foster a better understanding of opportunities and challenges at stake for the Americas in the Global Market. The Forum also seeks to provide a platform for business meetings in a broad spectrum of sectors and to foster economic development.

Bringing together the world’s leaders and legislators, economists, Fortune 500 CEOs and world-class experts, the World Strategic Forum is an active and effective platform for dialogue, corporate insight and collaboration on the
central issues affecting the world’s economy today.
The Forum receives wide, national and international media coverage and presents opportunities for business synergies aimed at long-term partnerships in the context of the fast-changing dynamics of the global economy.

2019 Speakers

Raja Al Mazrouei
Executive Vice President at Fintech Hive, Dubai International Financial Center

Luis Almagro Lemes
Secretary General, Organization of American States

Louis Audet
Executive Chairman, Cogeco and Cogeco Communications

Stephen Auton-Smith
Managing Director, Ernst & Young Infrastructure Advisors

Ibukun Awosika
Chairman, First Bank of Nigeria

Shaukat Aziz
Prime Minister of Pakistan (2004-2007); Member of the Advisory Board, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Rich Baich
Executive Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, Wells Fargo & Company

Jean Marc Bally
Managing Partner, Aster

Osama Bedier
Chief Executive Officer, Poynt; and Co-founder, Google Wallet

Carolina Bessega
Chief Scientific Officer and Co-founder, Stradigi AI

Devon Bryan
Executive Vice President and System Chief Information Security Officer, United States Federal Reserve

Eduardo E. Cabrera
Chief Cybersecurity Officer, Trend Micro

Bill Casey
Vice Chair, Americas Transaction Advisory Services, EY

Connie Cassidy
Partner, Transaction Advisory Services, EY

Jean-Henry Céant
Prime Minister of Haiti

Peter Cowhey
Dean and Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Communications and Technology Policy, School of Global Policy & Strategy, UC San Diego

Clemente Del Valle
President, Financiera de Desarollo Nacional

Arnold W. Donald
President and Chief Executive Officer, Carnival Corporation & plc

André Dua
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Kari Aina Eik
Secretary General, Organization for International Economic Relations

Johannes Evenblij
President Central America and South America Foods, PepsiCo

Romauld Sotario Ferreira
Minister of the Environment and Housing, Commonwealth of The Bahamas

Justin Fier
Director, Cyber Intelligence and Analytics, Darktrace

Becky Frankiewicz
President, North America, Manpower Group

Jürgen Gerke
Chief Executive Officer, Allianz Capital Partners

Jason Gaschel
Manager, Federal, National and State Accounts, Florida Power & Light Company

Constanza Gómez-Mont
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, C-minds

Emilio T. Gonzalez
City Manager, City of Miami

Brendan Greeley
US Editor, FT Alphaville

Victor Harison
Commissioner for Economic Affairs of the African Union Commission

Shaia Hosseinzadeh
Managing Partner, OnyxPoint Global Management

Mark Jennings-Bates
Vice President, North America, Pal-V

Philippe Jetté
President and Chief Executive Officer, Cogeco and Cogeco Communications

Bill Johnson
Former Secretary of Commerce, State of Florida; and Chairman, Advisory Committee, World Strategic Forum

Sara Johnson
Economics Executive Director, IHS Markit

Paul K. Kearns
Director, Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy

Joseph Keefe
President, Impax Asset Management LLC and Pax World Funds

Ryan Kelly
Head of Marketing and Communications, Virgin Hyperloop One

Jeffrey B. Kratz
General Manager, Latin America, Canada and Caribbean Regions, World-Wide Public Sector, Amazon Web Services

Juan M. Kuryla
Director and Chief Executive Officer, PortMiami

Andrew Lee
Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing Americas, UBS

Enrico Letta
Dean, Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), Sciences Po Paris; President, Jacques Delors Institute; and Prime Minister of Italy (2013-2014)

Anne-Marie Lévesque
Gender Equality and Women’s Economic Empowerment Advisor, FinDev Canada

Ray Lewis
Co-founder and Principal, Power52 Energy Solutions; Former Baltimore Ravens linebacker, 2x Super Bowl champion and 2018 Pro Football Hall of Fame Inductee

John Lipsky
Peter G. Peterson Distinguished Scholar, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins University

Arnold Liwanag
Chief Technology Officer, Ivado Labs

Diane Magnum
News Anchor, CBS; Reporter, Writer and Producer

José Luis Manzano
President and Chief Executive Officer, Integra Capital

Valarie McCall
Chief of Government & International Affairs & Acting Chief of Communications, City of Cleveland

Maxime Ménard
President and Chief Executive Officer, Jarislowsky Fraser

António Mexia
Chief Executive Officer, EDP – Energias de Portugal

Rodrigo Ocejo
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Avalancha Ventures

Uffe Ostergaard
President, Hapag-Lloyd America

Eduardo J. Padrón
President, Miami Dade College

Christian Paradis
Senior Vice President, Strategic Development, Protective Services, GardaWorld

Antonio H. Pinheiro Silveira
Corporate Vice President of Infrastructure, Development Bank of Latin America

Shawn Qu
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Solar

Jeremy Rasmussen
Chief Technology Officer and Partner, Abacode

Nicholas Rémillard
President and Chief Executive Officer, International Economic Forum of the Americas

Gil Rémillard
Founding Chairman, International Economic Forum of the Americas

Alex Rossi
Managing Partner, Liv Capital

Nargiza Salidjanova
Director, Economics and Trade, U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

Nick Sargen
Senior Vice President, Chief Economist and Sr. Investment Advisor, Fort Washington Investment Advisors

Lester Sola
Director and Chief Executive Officer, Miami International Airport

William D. Talbert III
President and Chief Executive Officer, Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau

Michael Thompson
Deputy Mayor and Chair of Toronto’s Economic and Community Development Committee, City of Toronto

Lily S. Trager
Executive Director and Director of Investing with Impact, Morgan Stanley

Miguel Vargas
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dominican Republic

Douglas Turnbull
Vice Chairman and Country Head, Canada, DBRS

Alexandra Villoch
President and Publisher, Miami Herald Media Company; and East Region Publisher, McClatchy

Núria Vilanova
Founder and President, ATREVIA; and President, Business Council Alliance for Ibero-America

Mark Voccola
Senior Managing Director, Ardian Infrastructure

Cao Wenlian
President, Development Council of the International Cooperation Center, National Development and Reform Commission, People's Republic of China

Candace Worley
Vice-President and Chief Technical Strategist, McAfee

Alan Yang
Chief Investment Officer, GLP

John E. Yearwood
Executive Board, International Press Institute; and Former World Editor, Miami Herald

Stavros N. Yiannouka
Chief Executive Officer, World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) – Qatar Foundation

2019 Partners

PRESENTING PARTNER:
• Miami Dade College

STRATEGIC PARTNERS:
• State of Qatar
• Atlantic Broadband
• Miami International Airport
• PortMiami

GOLD PARTNERS:
• FloridaRealtors
• EY
• Holland&Knight
• GardaWorld

SILVER PARTNERS:
• Berkeley Research Group
• Carnival Corporation & Plc.
• Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau
• Port Everglades
• World Innovation Summit for Education

BRONZE PARTNERS:
• Abacode
• Enterprise Florida
• DBRS
• Cemex
• FinDev Canada
• Integra Capital
• Odebrecht Construction USA
• FPL
• Miami Tunnel
• Laurentia Project
• IDRC CRDI
• Canada

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• Financial Times
• Fdi Intelligence
• Worth
• America Economia
• TheBusinessYear

SUPPORTING AND KNOWLEDGE PARTNERS:
• Invest Miami
• Young Leaders' of the International Economic Forum of the Americas