Latin America 2008: Outlook

Abel Halpern January 2, 2007

A special survey on Latin America's economic, business and political outlook.

A joint project of Latin Business Chronicle and the Inter-American Dialogue's daily Latin America Advisor, Latin America Outlook offers personal insights and forecast data from 30 of the most-respected leaders and analysts working in the region today.

The survey -- to be updated quarterly -- captures qualitative views on the region's outlook from people such as Tadeu Alves, the president for Latin America at Merck; Peter Cardinal, the executive vice president for Latin America at Scotiabank; Pamela Cox,the regional vice president for Latin America at the World Bank; Rui da Costa, the managing director for Latin America and Caribbean at HP; Eliot Engel, (D-NY), the Chairman of the US House Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs; Nicolas Mariscal, the Chairman of Grupo Marhnos in Mexico; Roberto Teixeira da Costa, board member of Banco Itau Holding Financeira and of SulAmerica in Brazil, as well as data forecasts from a range of economists covering Latin America at the most respected banks in the world (Citigroup, JP Morgan and others).

The panel of experts include:

Tadeu Alves, President for Latin America at Merck & Co, USA.
Carlos Blanco, director of market research at Signals Consulting, USA
Peter Cardinal, executive vice president for Latin America, Scotiabank, Canada.
Pamela Cox, regional vice president for Latin America, The World Bank.
Rui da Costa, managing director for Latin America and Caribbean, HP, USA.
Eliot Engel, (D-NY), chairman of the US House Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs.
Eric Farnsworth, vice president, Council of the Americas.
Richard Feinberg, professor and director of the APEC Study Center at the University of California in San Diego.
Jonathon Flott, senior economist for Latin America, Africa and the Middle East for General Motors.
Myles Frechette, former US Ambassador to Colombia.
Peter Hakim, president, Inter-American Dialogue.
Steve Johnson, former Latin America policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation.
Carina Lopez Espiño, director of financial services at Standard & Poor’s.
Claudio Loser, senior fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue and former Head of the Western Hemisphere Department at the IMF.
Jose Luis Machinea, executive secretary of the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Nicolas Mariscal, chairman of Grupo Marhnos in Mexico.
Tricia Paoletta, partner at Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis.
Carlos Mateo Paz-Soldan, partner at Saul Ewing, LLP.
Guillermo Perry, chief Latin America economist, World Bank.
Beatrice Rangel, managing director and president, AMLA Consulting, USA.
Marcelo Ribeiro, director of Brazilian corporate brokerage firm Pentagono DTVM.
Jose Antonio Rios, international president and chief administrative officer, Global Crossing, USA.
Riordan Roett, director of the Latin America studies program at Johns Hopkins University, USA
Peter Rösler, deputy general manager, Ibero-Amerika Verein, Germany.
Andres Rozental, chairman of the board of trustees of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations.
Peter Shaw, director for Latin America banks at Fitch Ratings.
Anoop Singh, director of the Western Hemisphere Department at the IMF.
Roger Stark, partner at K&L Gates in Washington, DC.
Wally Swain, SVP for Emerging Markets at the Yankee Group.
Roberto Teixeira da Costa, a board member of Banco Itau Holding Financeira and of SulAmerica.
Jose Valera, partner in the Global Transactions Group at King & Spalding.
Stephen Wong, regional director, Americas, Hong Kong Trade Development Council.