ECLAC and CAF Will Hold Annual Conference “The Challenge of Scaling Up and Improving Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean"

WHAT:    CAF-ECLAC annual conference "The Challenge of Scaling up and improving productive development policies in Latin America and the Caribbean".

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and CAF -Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean will hold their annual conference next Tuesday, April 9, 2024, at the United Nations economic regional commission’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile.

The high-level event will gather Ministers, Viceministers, high authorities from intergovernmental organizations, experts from regional and international institutions and representatives of the private sector and the training sector with the objective to generate a space to advance the design and implementation of productive development policies and the construction of a regional agenda in this area, in order to guide national and subnational governments, academia, private actors, and other civil society actors in the region in the generation of joint actions for sustainable and inclusive productive development.

WHEN:    

Tuesday, April 9, 2024, as from 8:30 a.m. Chile time (GMT -4)

WHERE:   Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)’s headquarters

Av. Dag Hammarskjöld 3477, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile

WHO:

• José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC
• Sergio Díaz-Granados, Executive President of CAF -Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean
• Nicolás Grau, Minister of Economy, Development and Tourism of Chile
• *Germán Umaña, Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia
• Sonsoles García, Minister of Production, Foreign Trade, Investments and Fisheries of Ecuador
• *Jose Antonio Ocampo, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University and Former Minister of Finance of Colombia
• Experts and scholars from regional and international organizations.
• Representatives of the private sector and the training sector

  *Virtual

LINKS:

*Registration is compulsory to attend

Agenda of the event

Live transmission – All the meeting’s sessions will be broadcasted on the website of the event and also in https://live.cepal.org/caf-cepal/ 

Photographs will be available at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/eclac

Media Accreditation: Journalists that wish to attend in person should bring their ID in order to access the building and must register previously in the following e-mail:prensa@cepal.org