Peña to attend economic forum

Tuesday, 21 January 2014 00:10 
THE NEWS


Paris, Francia – More than 30 entrepreneurs and senior officials from Mexico, led by President Enrique Peña Nieto, will participate in the 44th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week.

This will be Peña Nieto’s first year participating as president. He previously attended as candidate and as governor of Mexico State.

Peña Nieto, who is on the Davos Forum’s list of “Young Global Leaders,” will be the keynote speaker for the Thursday meeting in a half-hour speech that will be introduced and moderated by the forum’s founder, German professor of economics Klaus Schwab.

Peña Nieto will also participate in a roundtable discussion with senior officials from Colombia, Peru and Chile, which will focus on the business opportunities offered by the Pacific Alliance, of which Mexico is a founding partner.

Several prominent members of Peña Nieto’s cabinet will join the president, some of whom will also be speakers at the meeting.

This year’s forum will involve more than 40 heads of state and 1,500 business leaders from all the world.
They will include Emilio Lozoya Austin, the general director of Pemex and former director of the Davos Forum for Latin America, who will participate in a panel on global energy.

Mexico’s Economy Secretary, Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal, is also expected to speak at a conference on new rules of international trade.

Foreign Affairs Secretary José Antonio Meade and Finance Secretary Luis Videgaray, who led Mexico’s official participation in last year’s edition, are also expected to participate.

Guillermo Ortiz, the former governor of the Bank of Mexico and current president of Banorte, will also participate, along with former President Ernesto Zedillo and the Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), José Ángel Gurría.

Mexican entrepreneurs attending the Forum include the chairman of Cinépolis, Alejandro Ramírez Magaña, who co-chaired the event in 2012 and who will speak on this year’s panel.

FEMSA CEO José Antonio Fernández Carbajal, and Alfa chair Armando Garza Sada, regular attendees, will also attend this year’s forum, entitled: “The Reshaping of the World: Consequences for Society, Politics and Business.”

Representatives of ProMéxico, Grupo Salinas, Grupo Lauman, Mabesa, Omnilife-Angelíssima Group, Marhnos, Cydsa and Citi, among others, are also scheduled to participate, among others.