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Forum Schedule

May 20-22, 2009 (Wednesday to Friday)

Updated: May 21, 2009
*Dress Code: Business Casual for forum and Business Suit for Thursday Dinner
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All Forum sessions, except for the Welcome Reception, will take place at AR Convention located directly across Radisson Bogota Hotel
Time
Event
Location

May 20, 2009 (Wednesday)

5:00 to 9:00 PM
Registration Desk Opens at Radisson Royal Bogotá Hotel
 
7:00 to 10:00 PM
Welcome Reception
 
     

May 21, 2009 (Thursday)

9:00 to 10:00 AM
Opening Plenary
Arcoiris Room
 
Welcome Speech
Natan and Lidia Peisach – Lead Sponsors
 
 
Keynote Speaker
Alfredo Carvajal, W’59
Former President, Carvajal S. A.
 
 
Welcome from the Dean
Thomas S. Robertson
Dean and Reliance Professor of Management and Private Enterprise
The Wharton School
 
10:00 to 10:30 AM
Coffee Break
 
10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Panel Discussions  
 
  Arcoiris Room
 
Moderator:
Professor Neil A. Doherty
Frederick H. Ecker Professor of Insurance and Risk Management
The Wharton School
 
 
Panelist:
Hernan Mendez Bages
General Manager, Inversiones Falabella De Colombia
 
 
Augusto Jimenez
Chief Executive Officer, Drummond Colombia
 
 
Luis Carlos Sarmiento Gutiérrez
President, Grupo Aval
 
  Arboleda Room
 
Moderator:
Professor Diana C. Robertson
Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics
The Wharton School
 
 
Panelist:
Pablo Casabianca
President and General Manager
Andean, Caribbean & Central American Region, Syngenta
 
 
Abilio Ramos
General Manager, Petrobras Colombia
 
 
Javier Genaro Gutiérrez
President, Ecopetrol S.A.
 
12:30 Noon to 1:00 PM
Lunch Keynote
The 21st Century Megalopolis: Managing Giant Cities
Enrique Peñalosa
Former Mayor of Bogotá
Arcoiris Room
Raffle Announcement
 
1:00 to 2:00 PM
Networking Lunch
 
2:30 to 4:00 PM
Panel Discussions
 
  Arcoiris Room
 
Moderator:
Associate Professor Philip Nichols
Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics
 
 
Panelist:
Carlos Botero
Executive Director, Inexmoda
 
 
María Claudia Lacouture
General Manager, Colombia's Country Image, Proexport
 
 
Pedro Medina
Founder, Fundación yo creo en Colombia
 
  Arboleda Room
 
Moderator:
Professor Olivia S. Mitchell
International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor
The Wharton School
 
 
Panelist:
Roberto Albisetti
IFC Country Manager for Colombia, Perú, Venezuela and Ecuador
 
 
Alberto Gutierrez
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Titulizadora Colombiana
 
 
Charles Moser
Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
 
 
Jose I. Robledo
Partner, Estrategias Corporativas
 
5:00 PM
Transportation to dinner at Palacio de San Carlos
 
7:00 to 10:00 PM
Thursday Dinner is currently sold out, you will be places on a waiting list and notified as space becomes available.  
 
 
Dinner Keynote
Álvaro Uribe Vélez
President of the Republic of Colombia
Bogotá
 
 
Presentation of the Wharton School Dean's Medal
 

May 22, 2009 (Friday)

9:00 to 10:00 AM
Keynote Speech
Strategies For Promoting Investment And Trade During The Crisis
Luis Guillermo Plata
Minister of Trade, Industry and Tourism of Colombia
Bogotá
Arcoiris Room
10:00 to 10:30 AM
Coffee Break
 
10:30 AM to Noon
Panel Discussions
 
   
 
Moderator:
Luis Andrade, WG'86
Director, Mckinsey & Co
 
 
Panelist:
Eugenio Castro Carvajal
Chief Executive Officer, Assenda S.A.
 
 
Daniel Cortes McAllister
Treasury Vice-President, Citibank Colombia
 
 
Rodrigo Hurtado
Chief Executive Officer, Teledatos
 
 
Alvaro Jaramillo
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, IQ Outsourcing
 
  Arboleda Room
 
Moderator:
Associate Professor Philip M. Nichols
Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics
The Wharton School
 
 
Panelist:
Alfredo Carvajal, W’59
Former President, Carvajal S.A.
 
 
Clara de Ackerman
President, WWB Colombia
 
 
Natalia Toledo
Director, Andean Region, Ashoka
 
 
Felipe Vergara
Chief Executive Officer, Lumni Inc
 
Noon to 12:30 PM
Coffee Break
 
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Master Classes Taught By Wharton Faculty
 
 
Master Class #1
Reinventing Retirement Security in the 21st Century
by Olivia S. Mitchell
International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor; Professor of Insurance and Risk Management and Business and Public Policy
Arcoiris Room
  Arboleda Room
 
Master Class #3
International Corporate Social Responsibility
by Diana C. Robertson
Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics
Arlequin Room
 
Master Class #4
Insurance for the Very Poor: The Challenge and Promise of MicroInsurance
by Neil A. Doherty
Frederick H. Ecker Professor of Insurance and Risk Management
Arcangel Room
2:00 PM
Transportation to Lunch
 
2:30 PM
Closing Lunch at The Metropolitan Club
 
 
Raffle Drawing
 
 
2010 Global Alumni Forum Annoucement