International Economic Forum on Latin America and the Caribbean

Mathias Cormann, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Anabel González, Vice President for Countries and Regional Integration, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Bertrand Walckenaer, Deputy CEO, Agence française de développement (AFD)

H.E. Rodrigo Chaves Robles, President of Costa Rica (video intervention)

H.E. Mia Mottley, Prime Minister, Barbados (video intervention)

Master of Ceremonies: Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir, Director, OECD Development Centre 

As public revenues alone will be insufficient, mobilising the private sector is crucial to advancing a sustainable and innovative investment agenda that contributes to enhancing the digital transformation and the green transition. Financial markets must become deeper, more accessible, inclusive, and efficient. SMEs also need more robust capital markets to finance long-term investment projects.

How can governments, multilateral development banks (MDBs) and private actors leverage innovative financial instruments to promote a sustainable investment agenda that fosters competitiveness, supports production transformation, and boosts trade? In what sectors can further financing add value? This session explores these questions and will help position LAC ahead of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) in Seville.  

Panel discussion featuring:

Manuel Tovar, Minister of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica   

Susana Jiménez Schuster, President, Confederation of Production and Commerce (CPC) of Chile

Félix Fernández-Shaw, Director for Latin America and the Caribbean and relations with all Overseas Countries and Territories, Directorate-General for International Partnerships, European Commission

Juan Pablo Córdoba, CEO, nuam exchange

Valeria Csukasi, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Uruguay 

Moderator: Antonella Cavallari, Secretary General, International Italian-Latin American Organization (IILA)

Elmer José Germán Gonzalo Schialer Salcedo, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peru

Susana Sumelzo, State Secretary for Ibero-America and the Caribbean and Spanish in the World, Spain

Éléonore Caroit, French National Assembly member representing French citizens in Latin America and the Caribbean, Vice-Chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly, and Board member of the AFD, France

Moderator: David Bruck, Chair of the Governing Board of the OECD Development Centre and Permanent Representative of Ireland to the OECD (TBC)