Regional Financial Sector Forum

First Meeting: The Institutional Structure of Financial Regulation and Supervision

Washington D.C., September 13, 2002

The Forum's participants included:

Dennis Flannery, Executive Vice-President, IDB

Elizabeth Aguilera de Sandoval,Subsecretaría de Economía de Paraguay

Mechelle Albury, Securities Commission of The Bahamas

Maximir Álvarez, Banco Central de Venezuela

Rudy Araujo, Association of Supervisors of Banks of the Americas (ASBA)

Camilo Arenas, Corporación Andina de Fomento

Adrián Armas Rivas, Banco Central del Perú

Alberto Atallah Lajam, Superintendencia de Bancos de la República Dominicana

Guillermo Babatz, Director General de Seguros y Valores de México

Gavin Buckley, US Treasury Department

Luiz Leonardo Cantidiano, Comissão de Valores Mobiliarios do Brasil

Winston Carr, Comité Regional del Caribe, IADI

Álvaro Clarke de la Cerda, Superintendencia de Valores y Seguros de Chile

Miguel Chorro, Consejo Monetario Centroamericano

Félix Delgado, Consejo Nacional de Supervisión del Sistema Financiero de Costa Rica

Pierre Godin, COSRA

Carlos Isoard, Comité Regional de América Latina, IADI

Miguel Lee, Dirección de Supervisión Bancaria de Panamá

Dieter Lineberg, Superintendencia de Valores y Seguros de Chile

Neri Matus, Financial Sector Supervision Department, Belize

César Mondragón, Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores, Mexico

Ralph Oberholzer, Ministerio de Crédito e Inversión Pública de Honduras

Thordur Olafsson, International Monetary Fund

Roberto Payano, Superintendencia de Bancos de la República Dominicana

Lorena Silvani de Moreno, Banco de la República de Colombia

Sang-Ho Sohn, Financial Supervisory Commission of Korea

Phillip Thorpe, Dubai International Financial Centre Regulatory Authority, former Managing Director of the UK's Financial Services Authority

Emilio Uquillas, Corporación Andina de Fomento

Carlos Jarque, IDB

Antonio Vives, IDB

Pietro Masci, IDB

Edgardo Demaestri, IDB

Luis Giorgio, IDB

Diego Sourrouille, IDB

Infrastructure and Financial Markets Division
Private Enterprise and Financial Markets Subdepartment
Sustainable Development Department
Inter-American Development Bank