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2008 Latin America - United States Symposium at Harvard Law School, June 13-15, 2008

Maria Helena Santana, Chairperson, Comissão de Valores Mobiliários, Brazil and Brian O’Neill, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe, Eurasia, and the Western Hemisphere United States Department of the Treasury, will deliver keynote addresses at the inagural Latin America - U.S. Symposium in June 2008.

Dean Elena Kagan, Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law; Dean of the Faculty of Law will introduce Ms. Santana and
Merilee Grindle, Edward S Mason Professor of International Development at the Kennedy School of Government; Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies  will introduce Mr. O’Neilll.

A limited number of seats are available for faculty and students of the HLS, KSG, HBS, and FAS communities who wish to attend Mr. O’Neill’s and Ms. Santana’s addresses at 6:00-6:45pm, June 13, in Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall. Please contact us at pifstemp@law.harvard.eduor 617-495-4119 to learn more or to confirm your attendance.

Guillermo Babatz Torres, President, Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores, Mexico will deliver a luncheon keynote address at the 2008 Latin America - U. S. Symposium.

Guillermo Ríos Larraín, Chairman, Superintendencia de Valores y Seguros has agreed to lead a panel discussion during this year's Symposium.

For more information, please visit our Latin America page.

2008 China - U.S. Symposium Rescheduled

The 2008 China - U.S. Symposium has been rescheduled forl September 5-7, 2008. More details are available here.

Partner

Host Sponsor

The sixth annual Europe-U.S. Symposium will be held in April 2008 at the Weill Center in Armonk, New York. Our partner for this symposium is the Centre for European Policy Studies and Citi will once again be hosting the event. The following keynote speakers have been confirmed:

Kathleen L. Casey, Commissioner, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

Pierre Delsaux, Director, European Commission

Michael Klein, Chairman and Co-CEO, Citi Markets& Banking

PIFS and the International House of Japan hosted the tenth annual Japan -U.S. Symposium between September 14 and 16, 2007 on the campus of Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA.

PIFS and the China Development Research Foundation hosted the fourth annual China-U.S. Symposium from June 24-26, 2007 at the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, CA. The 2008 Symposium will be held in Shanghai, China. The date will soon be announced.

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THE PRINCIPALS

Hal S. Scott     Director
Hal Scott is the Nomura Professor of International Financial Systems. He has been at the Law School since 1975. A specialist in international banking and securities markets, his publications address Europe's economic and monetary union, international securities and banking regulation, capital adequacy, and Asian money and capital markets.

Jacob (J) M. Weinstein     Deputy Director
J Weinstein was the Tokyo-based, managing director of The Bridgeford Group, the M&A advisory firm of The Industrial Bank of Japan. Prior to that, he was an investment banker with PaineWebber. As an attorney, J practiced with Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Before joining PIFS in 2002, J was a capital markets and corporate governance advisor in emerging markets throughout the world.

Robin Radin     Associate Director
Robin Radin was managing director and general counsel for Asia Pacific of CS First Boston based in Tokyo and Hong Kong from 1992-95 and chief counsel for Asia of Morgan Stanley from 1987-92. A practicing lawyer since 1979, he previously taught Asian history, specializing in modern Japan.

Donald P. Kanak      Senior Fellow
Donald P. Kanak was the Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of American International Group, Inc. (AIG) from March 2005 through January 2006. During that period for and most of the past twenty years he lived and worked in Japan or Hong Kong, focusing on markets in Asia. His research at PIFS will focus on issues related to climate change and the development of energy alternatives in Asia. He is a member of the National Council of the U.S. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and an advisor to WWF-Hong Kong on climate change and carbon markets programs. Chairman (non-executive) of Prudential Corporation Asia.