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.

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.

Janine Dow is a senior director with Fitch Ratings’ sustainable finance (SUF) team and performs a global financial institutions analytical liaison function.

She joined SUF in May 2020, having spent many years in Fitch's financial institutions division, covering banks in Latin America, Europe, Turkey and Africa. She joined Fitch in 1992.

Prior to joining Fitch, Janine was involved in corporate finance advisory and brokering services to emerging European countries.

Janine earned a degree in history from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a BA in modern Iberian and Latin American regional studies at Kings College, University of London. She is also fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and French.

Economist with a specialization in Geopolitics from the EAFIT University in Medellín, Colombia. He has a Master's Degree in Sustainable Development and Corporate Responsibility from the School of Industrial Organization (EOI), Madrid, Spain. Experience and special interest in the consolidation of sustainable development models in private organizations and the promotion of responsible and sustainable investment in Latin America.

For 10 years he was the Sustainability Manager at Deloitte and in 2016 he led the creation of the Network of Sustainability Professionals in Colombia, an initiative that currently brings together more than 2,000 professionals who work promoting sustainable development. He is currently the Director for Latin America of the Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI), a global initiative that promotes responsible investment through the implementation of 6 globally recognized principles. Since 2018, it has managed to add more than 90 funds in the region to follow strategies that incorporate Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) criteria in their investment decision-making.

HUGO LOPEZ COLL, is a partner at Sainz Abogados. Mr. Lopez Coll graduated, with honors, from the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) and studied an LL.M. at Columbia Law School. He is admitted to practice in New York and Mexico. Mr. Lopez Coll has developed a broad practice representing domestic and international clients in Mexico on regulatory and compliance matters, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and corporate matters. He has represented companies in the structuring, implementation and roll-out of compliance policies and procedures, as well as with internal corporate investigations.

Mr. Lopez Coll has been highly recommended as a leading lawyer by many publications and editorials including Chambers Global and Chambers Latin America (ranked Band 1 lawyer in Compliance), Global Investigations Review (GIR), Who’s Who Legal (WWL) and LACCA. Mr. Lopez Coll is also a regular speaker and commentator at business seminars and conferences.

Erika is a seasoned Structured & Corporate Finance professional with over 20 years of experience in Investment Banking and Development Finance. She is head of the Syndicated Loans & Acquisition Finance Team and Strategic Investment Group in México. Erika joined Santander’s Corporate and Investment Banking in 2010, prior to her current position she was Head of Portfolio Management and Head of Private Debt Mobilization. She has participated with local and global companies in large transactions, specially Corporate, LBOs, Leverage and Structured finance, and during the years she spent in development banking she participated in relevant Infrastructure Financings. Erika holds a Degree in Business Administration from UIA and a MBA from ITAM.

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.

Mauricio Del Valle is the Chief Financial Officer of Saavi Energia since 2018, and has over two decades of experience in finance, focused on the power and utility sector. Prior to Saavi Energia, he spent five years at Calpine Corporation (Fortune 500, ex-NYSE: CPN) of Houston, Texas where he held multiple senior leadership positions, including Senior Vice President of Finance, Chief Risk Officer. Mauricio has twelve years of Investment Banking experience, predominantly in New York City with Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking, Global Power and Utility Group. He has substantial transaction expertise in mergers and acquisitions, and debt and equity capital markets transactions across the capital spectrum. Mauricio holds a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, a Masters of Finance from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), and a Bachelor of Science, Actuary, degree from ITAM.

Astra Castillo is a Senior Director at Fitch Ratings. She is part of the Latin American Infrastructure and Project Finance group and is responsible for the team that brings analytical coverage to a number of countries in the region, including Mexico, Colombia and Chile. Prior to joining Fitch Ratings in 2007, she worked as a corporate credit analyst at Mexico’s Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior. Astra holds a BS in Financial Administration from Tecnologico de Monterrey and a Master Degree in Finance from Universidad de Monterrey.

With almost 25 years of experience in Finance, M&A, Advisory and Fund Management, Blanca has actively participated in the execution of more than USD$6.5 billion in debt and equity financings for real estate and infrastructure projects in several countries of Latin America, Mexico and the US.

Currently, Blanca is CFO of Grupo Marhnos, a leading developer and operator of real estate and infrastructure assets. In Marhnos, Blanca leads a multidisciplinary team to structure and finance projects in the sectors of social infrastructure (schools and hospitals), highways and real estate. In addition, Blanca oversees the structuring, execution and management of various investment vehicles including a CKD listed in the Mexican Stock Exchange, a Private Equity Fund for investment in multifamily in the US and two investment platforms, one in Guatemala for highways and the other in Peru for schools.

Before Marhnos, Blanca has participated in several management capacities in the Banyan Tree Mexico Hospitality Fund, Real Capital Investment Management, GE Real Estate Mexico, AEW Capital Management and Beacon Properties.

Blanca participates as an independent member of the technical committee of Fibra Educa since its issuance in 2018 and currently is also an independent member of the industrial CKD ODOCK18.

Blanca is a Cornell University alumni, she holds degrees in Architecture and Urban Design and she has also pursued several studies in finance and real estate.

Blanca is a past Chair of ULI Mexico and is currently participating in the Advisory and Governance Boards.

José María Zertuche, Managing Director, is the Head and Chief Investment Officer of BlackRock's Latin America Infrastructure Investment Group. Mr. Zertuche has over 20 years of experience investing in real assets.

Mr. Zertuche is former Executive Vice-President of I2, the leading infrastructure investment manager in Mexico acquired by BlackRock in October, 2015. His prior experience is in investment banking, including M&A, debt and equity capital markets transactions, asset management, strategy and operations. Mr. Zertuche was a founder of Infraestructura Institucional ("I2") in 2010, and served as Chief Financial and Investment Officer since its inception in 2010. Prior to founding Infraestructura Institucional, Mr. Zertuche served as Chief Investment and Control Officer of Mexico Retail Properties ("MRP Group"), which he co-founded in October 2002, when was the first officer of MRP Group in Mexico.

Prior to joining MRP, Mr. Zertuche was an Associate at Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup in its Global Energy Group in New York,where he completed lead managed capital raising transactions totaling $3.6 billion and co-managed transactions worth $1.5 billion, as well as various M&A transactions. Prior to his work at SSB, Mr. Zertuche was associated with Somoza/Cortina & Asociados, Casa de Bolsa and InverMexico, Casa de Bolsa, both investment banks in Mexico City, where he completed capital raising transactions worth over $2.5 billion, and over 20 M&A transactions.

Mr. Zertuche holds a B.S. in Actuarial Science from the Universidad Anahuac in Mexico City, and an MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, where he received the Faculty Award for Academic Excellence, Darden's highest academic distinction.