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.

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.

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.

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.

Mr. Villarreal has worked in the Investor Relations and Sustainability office of several companies within Grupo Salinas since 2013. Between 2006 and 2013, he held several management and financial positions in companies in the insurance, pension and retail sector, also within Grupo Salinas. Previously, he worked in Grupo Elektra’s Budget and Corporate Finance between 1997 and 1998, before joining the Investor Relations area between 1998 and 2006.

Mr. Villarreal holds an MBA from the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) and a Bachelor degree in Business Administration from Trinity Western University in Vancouver, Canada. He also holds specialized studies in Social Responsibility from the Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and in Insurance from ITAM. Mr. Villarreal also made an executive course in the Financial Frontier at the Mendoza College of Business in Notre Dame University and studies in securities markets in the Canadian Securities 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.

Aaron Franklin works with companies to integrate their Environmental Social Governance (ESG) performance and strategy into their financings, including structuring and executing green bonds, sustainability-linked loans and related instruments.

Aaron Franklin has more than five years experience in sustainable finance, previously serving as the Global Coordinator for Sustainable Capital Markets for a major international law firm and subject matter expert for all sustainable financings, and more than 10 years experience in international finance.

Aaron has executed many sustainable finance transactions, including green bonds and loans for clients ranging from some of the largest corporate issuers to diversified high-yield companies as well as the first-ever bond with an interest rate adjustment linked to achieving a sustainability performance target. Aaron publishes frequently on topics related to sustainable finance and has served on the Advisory Council to the Green Bond Principles Executive Committee.

Aaron’s key expertise is in structuring and drafting sustainable finance frameworks; identifying material KPI and setting ambitious sustainability performance targets in sustainability-linked loans, and analysing of industry trends and developments.

Aaron has a B.S. from Cornell University focusing on international development and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Centre.

Sara Pirzada recently joined SMBC as a Managing Director, heading the Latin America business for Loan Capital Markets in New York. Prior to her current position, Sara was a Managing Director at Mizuho Securities, heading Latin America as well as Americas Project Finance, for Loan Capital Markets. She has more than 20 years of broad experience executing debt financings for corporate, structured, and project finance transactions for the oil and gas, power, renewable energy, infrastructure, mining, and commodities sectors across the Americas.  Prior to joining Mizuho, Sara was a Director at WestLB, where she spent more than ten years, and was involved in many high-profile transactions in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Previous to WestLB, Sara spent several years at JP Morgan in the investment banking division focusing on the oil and gas sector in the Americas.  Sara holds an MBA and BSc. in Finance and International Business from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

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.

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.

Wilfried Marchand, Managing Director, is responsible for the project bond

business within SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc.’s Latin America Debt

Capital Markets team. Wilfried joined SMBC in 2014 and has more than 20 years

of experience in debt capital markets, structured finance, and project finance.

Prior to joining SMBC, Wilfried spent 16 years at BNP Paribas where he held

several positions in the structured solutions, securitization, and commodity

finance divisions.

Wilfried has led the structuring, rating, and placement of numerous awardwinning

project bond transactions in the power, infrastructure and oil & gas

sectors for SMBC, which was named Bond Arranger of the Year for 2019 by

IJ Global Magazine. He works closely with SMBC’s Latin America Project

Finance team to advise issuers and project sponsors on raising funding in the

international public and private debt capital markets.

Wilfried received a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Ecole

Supérieure de Commerce de Paris and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

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.

Eduardo Barrera Montañez owns a BA in Public Accounting from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

(ITAM) at Mexico City, Mexico.

• On May 2002, graduated from Carnegie Mellon University as a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in

Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, USA (Class 2002).

• Eduardo has been a Corporate Banker for more than 23 years in the Mexican Financial System.

• From July 1998 until July 2014, worked at Banco Nacional de México (Banamex) – Citigroup. His last role was

Director of the Energy, Power and Chemicals division at the Corporate Banking Area.

• On July 2014, Eduardo incorporated to Sabadell Capital SOFOM as Director of the Energy Sector in Corporate

Banking and became founder of Banco Sabadell in Mexico.

• As of today, Eduardo is Managing Director and Head of the Corporate Banking Division at Banco Sabadell México.

• Eduardo is the CEO of Sabcapital SA de CV SOFOM ER, which is the financial entity used by Sabadell for the

structured finance activity in Mexico.

• Eduardo was President of the Energy Committe within the Instituto Mexicano de Ejecutivos de Finanzas (IMEF) for

the period 2016-2019.

• Founder Member of the Energy Committe within the Cámara Española de Comercio in Mexico.

• Active member and participant of the GRI chapter Infrastructure and Energy. Likewise, he is member of the

Infrastructure Committe at the Asociación de Bancos de México (ABM).

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.

Eamonn is a 30-year leader in the financial services arena and has worked extensively globally, including LATAM on major regulatory initiatives, As the Global and US lead for KPMG’s Blockchain Practice in Financial Services, he has more than 28 years of management advisory and business experience. He has previously worked in industry in mortgage securitization and has focused on major transformations in capital markets, and regulatory change. Eamonn serves as a US and Americas lead in helping clients respond to the market transition from LIBOR, addressing all core stages. In addition, he works closely with the US Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Corporate Treasurers.

Nicolás has over 30 years’ experience in financial markets, working with regulatory transformation topics regarding financial instruments and risks both in the United States and Mexico, primarily in the financial services, agribusiness and energy industries. Nicolás has specialized in the management of financial exposure, financial risks and hedge thereof from an accounting perspective, considering its impact on the financial statements of multiple sector companies. He is currently the KPMG lead partner for Latin America in regard to accounting standards associated with financial instruments under IFRS 9.

Salvador Covarrubias joined Santander in 2000; he is Head for FX, Short-Term Markets & Securities Lending, also serves as Treasury Committee Coordinator for Asociación de Bancos de México and is permanent member in Banxico´s Working Groups for Markets Development including RFR´s implementation project. Salvador has a long trajectory in Markets and during these years has experienced many important changes on the industry. He is BSc Actuarial Sciences by ITAM and holds a Master’s in Finance from Universidad Anahuac. He has a solid reputation in the market and consider a leader in Market Making.