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Opening Ceremony:

• Zéphirin Diabré, Assistant Administrator, United Nations Development Programme

• Alberto Alemán Zubieta, Administrator, Panama Canal Authority

First Plenary Session:

• James Austin, SEKN, Harvard Business School

• Josefina Doumbia, Latin America Environmental Coordinator, IFC, World Bank Group

• Paulino Barros, Executive Vice President, BellSouth Latin America

• Stan Litow, Vice President, Corporate Community Relations, IBM; and President, IBM Foundation

• Andrés Palma, Minister of Planification and Cooperation, Chile 

• Joost Martens, Regional Director for Central America and the Caribbean, Oxfam International

First Breakout session: Session A: The reputation of the company resulting from the use of CSR as a tool for Competitiveness

• Djordjija Petkoski, CSR Program Leader, World Bank

• Rafael Wong, Executive Vice President, Favorita Fruit, Ecuador

• Maria Eugenia Fuenmayor, Director of Corporate Affairs, CentralAmerica and Andes Region, Kraft Foods ANCAM

• Juan Trimboli, Deputy Director, Latin America and Caribbean Office, CI and Red Puente Chile

First Breakout session: Human resources management to improve competitiveness

• Claudia Piras, Especialist on Social Development, IDB

• Hermann von Mühlenbrock, President, Gerdau Aza, Chile

• Eugenio Heiremanns, President, Asociación Chilena de Seguridad, Chile

• Gerardina González, Director, Central America Subregional Office, ILO 

Second Breakout session: Supporting suppliers to improve their competitiveness

• Daniel Turletti, Content, Quality and Logistics Manager, Exiros, Grupo Techint, Argentina

• Maria Teresa Villanueva, Social Entrepreneurship Program, Inter-American Development Bank

• George Richa, General Manager, Velas La Devoción, Panama

• Rosa Alicia Yunes, Supply Chain & Business Affair Director for Latin America, McDonald’s

Second Breakout session: Community Involvement as a Source of Competitiveness

• Audra Jones, Argentina and Venezuela Representative, IAF, US

• Leopoldo Garza, Director, USAID, Panama

• Beatriz Febres-Cordero, President, Papyrus Foundation, Venezuela - speaking notes

• John Weiser, Partner, Brody, Weiser and Burns, US

• Fernando Rodríguez, Manager HSEQ&SD, Conoco, Venezuela

• George Jaksch, Senior Director, CSR and Public Affairs, Chiquita Brands International, Belgium

Second Plenary Session: Public policies, private sector needs and the role of the civil society

• Frank Sader, South America Regional Program Coordinator, Investment Climate Department, World Bank

• Paula Dobriansky, Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs, US

• Simon Zadek, CEO AccountAbility, UK

• Erwin Hahn, Executive Director, Forum Empresa

• Carmelo Calvo Ridruejo, High Level Management Advisor, Reputation and Corporate Social Responsibility General Subdivision, Telefónica, Spain

Third Breakout Session: Reporting strategies and the dissemination of CSR activities as a tool for competitiveness

• Italo Pizzolante, President, Pizzolante Comunicación Estratégica, Venezuela

• Simon Zadek, CEO, AccountAbility, UK

• Tony Henshaw, Vice President, Health, Safety, Environment and Social Department, Transredes, Bolivia - speaking notes

• Allen White, Former Acting Chief Executive, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)

Third Breakout Session: Alternative Markets

• Gustavo Herrero, Harvard Business School Latin America Research Center

• Jaime Sotela, Pórtico, Costa Rica - speaking notes

• Héctor Ureta Morales, General Manager, Patrimonio Hoy CEMEX, Mexico

• Antonio Boadas Procter & Gamble, Venezuela

Plenary discussion: The future of Corporate Social Responsibility

• David Valenzuela, President, IAF, US

• Jacques Rogozinski, General Manager, IIC 

• Pablo Gabriel Obregón, President, Fundación Mario Santo Domingo, Colombia

• Bradley Googins, Executive Director, The Center for Corporate Citizenship, Boston College, US

• Ivor Hopkins, Director, MHC International Ltd - speaking notes

Other

• The Americas Conference on CSR Proceedings