An Agenda for Brazil and the United States

The Brazil-U.S. Symposium is limited to approximately 120 participants and is by invitation-only. The event attracts senior financial leaders, high-ranking government officials, and distinguished academics from the United States and Brazil for intensive, off-the-record dialogues on issues affecting international capital markets. 

Off-the-record and closed to the media, the invitation-only PIFS Symposia convene leading market practitioners at off-site retreat venues. The cornerstone of PIFS Symposia is the candid, intimate exchange of ideas and dialogue between ...more...

2008 Symposium on Building the Financial System of the Twenty-First Century:
An Agenda for Latin America and the United States

June 13-15, 2008 • Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Topics
•  Corporate Governance
•  Global Financial Stability: The Impact and Control of the Liquidity and Credit Crises
•  The Role of Private Pools of Capital in the Latin American/U.S. Capital Markets

Keynote Speakers
•  Guillermo Babatz Torres, President Comisión Bancaria y de Valores, Mexico
•  Héctor Medina, Executive Vice President of Planning and Finance, CEMEX, Mexico
•  Brian O’Neill, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Western Hemisphere, U.S. Department of the Treasury
•  Maria Helena Santana, Chairperson, Comissão de Valores Mobiliários, Brazil

Symposium Materials
•  Agenda
•  Final Plenary Presentation
•  Final Report
•  To request a list of participants, please contact Dan McCardell, Deputy Director, PIFS.

We offer our gracious thanks to the 2008 Latin America-U.S. Symposium sponsors for their generous support of this year's event. Please click here to view our sponsoring organizations.