Patricio Navia is a Clinical (Full) Professor of Liberal Studies and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. He is also a (full) Professor of Political Science at Universidad Diego Portales in Chile. Ph.D. in Politics from New York University, an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Political Sciences and Sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton University, New School University, Universidad de Salamanca, Universidad de Chile and NYU Buenos Aires, and a visiting fellow at the University of Miami. He has published scholarly articles and book chapters on democratization, electoral rules and democratic institutions in Latin America. He is a columnist in El Líbero in Chile and the Americas Quarterly. He has previously penned columns for La Tercera, Capital and Poder magazines in Chile, Buenos Aires Herald and Perfil in Argentina and for Infolatam.

 

DATE: Wednesday April 11, 2018

12:00- 12:30 pm - Registration

12-30-1:45 pm- Luncheon-Lecture

1:45-2:00PM - Networking

VENUE: American Society- Council of the Americas: 680 Park Avenue; New York, NY  10065

 

 

PRICE: FREE for members and $15 Non-Members

 

 

 

 

Dr. Ricardo Escobar is a partner in the Chilean Law firm, Bofill Escobar Abogados.  Dr. Escobar has extensive tax experience in the Chilean public and private sectors.  He was the Commissioner of the Chilean Internal Revenue Service from 2006-2010, where he led one of the key teams working on Chile’s accession process to the OECD.  He has participated in designing legislation in Chile for the last two decades, including among other projects, the regime for concessions of public works, double taxation, and capital markets.  Dr. Escobar has also been advisor to the Chilean Ministry of Finance on tax matters, and delegate on behalf of the Chilean Ministry of Finance to the OECD’s Committee of Fiscal Affairs.  He was previously the Lead Partner for Transaction Advisory Services at Ernst & Young Chile and the Lead Tax Policy Partner for America and Global Lead Tax Policy Partner for the Mining Industry at E & Y.  He was also a tax partner at Carey y Cia., the largest law firm in Chile. Dr. Escobar has a law degree from the Law School at Universidad de Chile and a Master of Laws degree (L.L.M) from the University of California, Berkeley.  He is also a professor at the Law School of Universidad de Chile where he has taught Tax Law, Introduction to Economics, and International Tax Law.

 

Venue: Kirkland & Ellis LLP @ 601 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10022

Time: 12:30PM - 2:00PM

Price: Members: $35; No-Members: $45

PEDRO CANALES CONTRERAS

Pedro Canales Contreras is the Executive Director of Fundación Tierra de Esperanza. Psychologist at the University of Chile, expert in childhood and adolescence, has been a consultant for UNICEF and the Dequení Foundation in Paraguay. He has been a lecturer  on Social Policy issues at University of Chile, of  Psychology of Communication, Mediation and Conflicts  at Universidad Andrés Bello and Universidad del Pacífico, of Criminal Procedure and Communication Reform at Universidad de Concepción  and of  Family and Communication for the graduate program in Family Mediation at Universidad del Pacífico.  Of the works carried out in Paraguay, it is worth mentioning the advice given to the Management in the Don Bosco Roga Foundation (evaluation and design of social intervention programs and job training with national coverage), and the organizational and communication design for the DEQUENI Foundation - Paraguay.

Thank you for your interest in this event. At the moment, tickets are SOLD OUT. 

 

ARIANE ORTIZ-BOLLIN

Ariane Ortiz-Bollin is an Analyst in the Sovereign Risk Group at Moody's Investor Service. She is the lead analyst for Chile and other countries in Central America and the Caribbean. Before joining Moody's in 2011, Ariane was a research analyst at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, conducting research on a range of macro-economic, monetary policy and financial regulation topics. Her prior experience includes corporate credit analysis in Citigorup-Banamex in Mexico, covering the corporate sector in the north of the country.

 

Ariane graduated with Honors in Economics from the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM ) and has a Masters in Public Administration from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

 

 

 

With a background in Business, Patricia has been an active professional supporting the development of new businesses in Chile with an international perspective. All of this from the strategic point of view of the public sector.

 

Before becoming InvestChile's first Investment Commissioner for North America, she was the Director of the Acceleration unit at the well renowned Start-Up Chile program, in which she guided its team into offering world-class services to tech entrepreneurs from more than 80 countries. While in Start-Up Chile she previously had other roles such as Operations and Business Development, and created its female-focused pre-acceleration program, The S Factory. This last position led her to be named as one of the 200 Leaders of Tomorrow by the St Gallen Symposium in Switzerland (2016), one of the Young Leaders 2015 in Chile and a participant of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) from the U.S. State Department (2017).

 

As an active member of the technology and startup community worldwide she is also a mentor for startup founders and helps startup programs identify the best opportunities to invest in, along with being a speaker at multiple seminars in the Americas and Europe on innovation, public policies and business.

 

Time: 4:30PM- 5:30P

Location: CAP S.A

45 Rockefeller Plaza, ; Suite 2000; New York, NY 10111

Followed by Cocktails: 5:30 to 7:00PM

Celebrate the Holidays with Concha y Toro Wine

Price: $35 for Members, $45 for Non-Members

Reservations: NO LATER THAN 5:00 P.M. on December 5, 2017