Gabriel Yorio serves as Deputy Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico. Prior to his present position, he served as Head of the Public Credit & International Affairs Unit at the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico.

In the professional field, Gabriel Yorio has specialised in the public sector and has been international consultant on financial management at The World Bank Governance Global Practice office in Washington, D.C.

Prior to that, Mr. Yorio was appointed Deputy Director of Technical and Financial Assistance and Financial Advisory Manager, both at the National Bank for Infrastructure and Public Services (BANOBRAS). He also held the position of Director of Public Debt, Director of Funds, Operations and Securities Custody and Deputy Director of Financial Operations at the Ministry of Finance in the Mexico City Government.

Gabriel Yorio holds a B.A. in Economics from the Technological Institute and Superior Studies of Monterrey (Tecnológico de Monterrey), a M.A. in Economics from El Colegio de México and an M.A. in Policy Management from Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy.

Mr Unda is an economist from UDLAP, receiving two national awards for his thesis proving efficiency in the Mexican stock exchange market. He holds a master degree in Finance by ITAM, and he has been a CFA charterholder since 2007.Since 2010 he has been the CIO of BBVA Asset Management for Latin America, managing over $35 billions of assets mainly in mutual and pension funds, insurance portfolios and private wealth clients.

Oversees the investment decisions and asset allocation of the Latin American team for México, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Argentina and Brazilian Portfolios. He is also responsible for the management of BBVA Bancomer ETFs and other passive management investments.

Jorge Unda has also great experience in Private Banking, Product Development and equity portfolio management.Jorge Unda is also member of the board for the CFA Society of Mexico.

Eduardo Suárez is Vice-President, Latin America Economics. In this role, Eduardo will leverage the Bank’s Latin American experience and focus on Mexico, Chile, Peru and Colombia, providing direct support to the Pacific Alliance. Prior to this role, he held the position of Director & Co-Head, LatAm Strategy on the Foreign Exchange Strategy team. And prior to joining Scotiabank, he worked as an Emerging Markets strategist at another major Canadian bank, as an economist in Mexico’s Finance Ministry and as a corporate credit analyst for a Mexican bank. Eduardo holds an MBA with a major in financial engineering from the Rotman School of Management and a BSc in Economics from the University of Warwick in the UK.

Alejandro Padilla has more than 15 years of experience as a professional economist and macro strategist. Mr. Padilla is Head Strategist of Fixed-income, FX and Commodities (Research Director) at Banorte bank, based in Mexico City. He has been holding this post for the last 9 years. Previously, Mr. Padilla worked for 3 years at J.P.Morgan Chase as Emerging Markets Strategist, based in the Mexico City office. He has also worked in the financial sector in areas related to treasury, economic research and IR. Mr. Padilla obtained a Master’s degree in Economics from University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, together with an Honours degree (graduate level) in Financial Economics from the same institution. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from ITAM in Mexico and a Corporate Finance Executive Education Diploma from Kellogg/Northwestern University. On the academic front, Mr. Padilla has lectured in the MBA program at Universidad Iberoamericana and at several diploma programs about corporate finance and market economics at Tecnológico de Monterrey – EGADE Business School, Universidad Anáhuac and Riskmathics. He actively participates in national and international publications, as well as in radio and TV specialized programs, highlighting a monthly newspaper column at El Financiero Bloomberg. He was awarded with the “Future Leaders” distinction in 2017 by the Institute of International Finance. He has dictated several conferences about economics and financial markets in Mexico, United States, Europe and Asia.

Adrian is presently a Vice President - Senior Analyst in the Global Project and Infrastructure Finance Team. Adrian holds lead analytical responsibility for a portfolio of infrastructure companies and projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. The portfolio covers toll-roads, energy utilities, natural gas pipelines, airports, PPPs, and other infrastructure assets.

In his role, Adrian develops and conducts research on sector trends and industry related topics. He is a regular participant at high-profile market briefings, external conferences and media engagements. Adrian is also a spokesperson for Moody’s in Latin America for environmental, social and governance (ESG) topics.

Adrian’s experience in financial analysis spans for 15 years. Before joining Moody’s in 2010, he gained experience in investment banking where he executed transactions in the housing and publishing industries. Prior to that, he worked at a credit rating agency in the structured finance, project finance and sub-sovereign teams.

Adrian holds a MSc in Economics and Philosophy from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a BA in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). Adrian is also a CFA charter holder.

Alex is Founder and CEO of GFC Media Group. He is responsible for shaping the business strategy as well as overseeing the day-to-day running of the company. Launched in 2009 focusing on capital markets conferences in the GCC, the business today operates across 4 continents and delivers market intelligence and peer-to-peer discussion to over 10,000 senior finance and investment executives per year.

In 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, GFC Media Group transitioned its entire business online, having spent 10 years only delivering Live conferences and roundtables.

Prior to starting GFC Media Group, Alex worked in various roles in media, research, and events. He has a degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Durham.

Monica Macia is managing director, head of Loan Syndications Americas - Global Banking at HSBC Securities (United States). She has extensive experience structuring and distributing loans for companies throughout the Americas. Macia started her career at Citibank Mexico in 1992 and then transferred to New York in 1995 to structure and distribute loans for companies across Latin America including project finance, asset finance, acquisition finance, structured trade, securitization, investment grade, corporate, and financial institutions loans.

Anne Milne is a managing director and head of the EM Corporate Credit Research team at BofA securities, with teams in New York, London, Hong Kong and São Paolo. The team is responsibility for fundamental credit research, as well as corporate credit strategy. Prior to joining the firm in 2010, she was head of EM Corporate Bond Research at Deutsche Bank Securities. Previously, Milne held research and portfolio management positions with JP Morgan, ING Barings, Trust Company of the West (TCW) and the World Bank. Milne currently focuses on the energy, utilities and cement sectors in Latin America. Milne and her team have been ranked the #1 or #2 Research Team for Emerging Market Credit by Institutional Investor since 2003. She holds a bachelor’s degree in international politics from the University of the Pacific and a master’s degree in international economics from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She is based in New York.

Jack Deino is Head of Emerging Markets Fixed Income Portfolio Management and a senior portfolio manager at Invesco. In addition to overseeing overall EM debt portfolio management and trading, Mr. Deino is the lead Portfolio Manager for Invesco’s emerging markets sovereign and corporate credit portfolios.

Mr. Deino joined Invesco in 2006 and has more than 21 years of experience trading, analysing and investing in Emerging Markets securities. He has been involved in the restructuring of diverse credits on a global basis and has played an instrumental role in developing and implementing the emerging markets credit research process at Invesco as well as at previous firms. Mr. Deino has held positions at Inverlat International, Daiwa Securities America, Zephyr Management, Orix Capital Markets and APS Financial Corp.

Mr. Deino earned a BA degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and is fluent in both Portuguese and Spanish, Conversant in French, and has knowledge of basic Mandarin. He is a CFA charterholder and is a member of the CFA Institute.

¨Professional with a major in Business Administration and Post-Graduation in Finance with more than 20 years of experience in Financial Industry on products and strategic management, mainly in the Corporate Trust Area, John joined at Citibank on March 2010, today he belongs to Agency & Trust Latam Sales team and is responsible for Mexico and Colombia. During 6 years, he was Agency & Trust as Product Head for Citibank Colombia. Prior to join Citi he worked for HSBC Colombia for 9 years in Agency &Trust area as Sales Manager and Senior Structuring and Account Manager, responsible for structuring and administration the trust agreements for important merger & acquisition, capital market transaction, syndicated loans and infrastructure projects.¨

Giulia Pellegrini is Deputy CIO for Emerging Markets Debt at Allianz Global Investors, where she focuses on EM sovereign debt strategies and ESG investing. Prior to joining AllianzGI in 2020, she was Head of Sustainable EM Fixed Income Investing at BlackRock since 2015. Ms Pellegrini was previously Chief Economist for Sub-Saharan Africa in J.P. Morgan’s Emerging Market Research team in London and in Johannesburg and an Economist at the World Bank in the Africa Finance and Private Sector Development Department in Washington D.C. She started her career as an Economist in the Policy & Strategy Division of the Debt Management Office of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Abuja. Giulia holds master degrees in Development Economics and in Econometrics from the University of Oxford, St Antony’s College and from Birkbeck College as well as a BSc in Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London.

Mr. Frontera has 19 years’ experience in the banking and loan syndications market. Previously with Barclays Capital, where he spent 13 years performing different roles including heading Latin American loan syndications, US leverage sales and US high grade loan sales. Mr. Frontera joined CA CIB in 2011 as a Managing Director in the Loan Syndications Group focused on Latin America. His team’s success in leading syndicated loan transactions has been valuable to CA-CIB’s loan franchise success in Brazil and across the region.

Mr. Frontera holds a BA in business administration from the University of South Carolina where he was a NCAA division 1 tennis player and also holds an MBA in finance from the University of Miami.

EL MAESTRO JOSÉ ANTONIO AGUILAR es licenciado en economía (ITAM) con maestría en administración de empresas (Georgetown University), encabeza en su papel de Principal, las finanzas y la administración de Vive Energía SAPI de CV. El maestro José Antonio Aguilar, ha sido una pieza clave en la financiación de proyectos de desarrollo de energías renovables en México.

DESTACAN ENTRE OTRAS, SUS POSICIONES COMO: Senior Investment Officer de la Corporación Financiera Internacional (IFC) del Banco Mundial, Director General Adjunto de Banca de Inversión en Nacional Financiera, Director General de Acciona Energía México, Vicepresidente de Desarrollo de Proyectos en Suez Tractebel, Director de Desarrollo de Negocios en Enron, Adicionalmente ha participado como Consejero en las empresas Médica Sur, Macma y Mifel (empresas públicas) y presidido la Corporación Mexicana de Inversiones de Capital (Fondo de Fondos), y el Fondo Mexico Ventures.

Participación como miembro del Comité de Analista Independiente de la Bolsa Mexicana de Valores y del Comité de Inversiones del Fondo FICA Agro PYME de FOCIR, así como Presidente del Comité de Infraestructura del IMEF.

Paula is an associate director in Fitch Ratings’ Latin American corporates group. Her primary areas of expertise are the utilities-power and energy industries, for which she is the primary analyst for strong portfolio of credits. While at Fitch, Paula has worked in a number of rating transactions with diverse risks and business lines.

Paula has authored several credit analysis and special reports focusing on electric-power and energy in Latin America. Paula earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Economics from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She also earned a Master in Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with concentrations in Finance, Strategy and Economics.

With over 35 years of asset management experience in Mexico, Arturo supports all of Alpine’s fundraising and investor relations efforts in Mexico.

Alpine is a placement agent and advisory firm that raises capital for investment managers and companies.

Prior to joining Alpine, Arturo held the CIO position at various Mexican pension funds including MetLife, Invercap, Garante (Citigroup), CitiBanamex (Deputy CIO), and INFONAVIT (National Workers Housing Fund Institute in Mexico).

He is a recurring contributor and financial analyst on the Mexican PE industry and Pension Funds at fundssociety.com since 2015.

He holds a degree in Economics from Universidad Anahuac. He won first place in the National Securities Market Prize organized by the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV) with his professional thesis in 1985.