Media Invitation: Latin America Finance Experts to Issue Joint Statement on the Impact...

Media Invitation: Latin America Finance Experts to Issue Joint Statement on
the Impact of Financial Crisis and Food and Oil Price Hikes

Sailing Calm in a Stormy Sea?

Latin America's Response to Global Financial Turmoil and the Food Price Crisis

A group of former senior Latin American policymakers, the Latin America Shadow
Financial Regulatory Committee, will issue a statement on the long-term
impacts of the U.S. financial turmoil and rising oil and food prices on Latin
America, and offer suggestions for how the region should respond. The Latin
American policymakers listed below will examine the long-term impacts of these
external shocks to Latin America for three days before issuing the statement
to the media. For more information, or to register for this event, contact CGD
media assistant Ben Edwards (BEdwards@cgdev.org; phone 202-416-0740)

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
10:30 a.m.--12:00 p.m.
at
Hilton Washington Embassy Row
Ambassador Room
2015 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

Latin America Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee:
Liliana Rojas-Suarez: President, LASFRC; Senior Fellow, Center for Global
Development
Guillermo Calvo: Former Chief Economist, Inter-American Development Bank
Claudio Contador: Former Professor Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
Guillermo Chapman: Former Minister of Planning and Economic Policy, Panama
Roque Fernandez: Former Minister of Finance, Argentina
Pablo Guidotti: Former Vice-Minister of Finance of Argentina
Ernesto Talvi: Former Chief Economist, Central Bank of Uruguay
Roberto Zahler: Former President, Central Bank of Chile

CONTACT: Ben Edwards of Center for Global Development, +1-202-416-0740,
BEdwards@CGDEV.ORG

/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- May 20/

SOURCE Center for Global Development