8:30 – 9:00 

REGISTRATION

9:00 – 9:30

OPENING SESSION

• Virginia Cartaya, Manager of Studies and Proposals of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA).
• Carmen Gisela Vergara, General Secretary of Secretariat for Central American Economic Integration (SIECA).

9:30 – 10:30

SESSION I. CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN INTEGRATION INDEX FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN. PARTICIPATION OF EXPERTS
Moderator: Javier Rodríguez, Analyst of the Direction of Studies and ProposalsofSELA. 

• Composite indices and their implementation to measure regional integration. International Trade and Industry Unit of ECLAC. By Humberto Soto de la Rosa, Social Affairs Officer of ECLAC

10:30 – 11:00

Questions and answers

11:00 – 11:30

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 12:15

SESSION II. INTEGRATION INDEX FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Moderator: Eduardo Espinoza Valverde, manager of Study Center for Economic Integration of SIECA

Presentation of the study: Integration Index for Latin America and the Caribbean. By Javier Rodríguez, Analyst of the Direction of Studies and Proposals of SELA  

12:15 – 12:45

Questions and answers

12:45–  02:00

SESSION III: REGIONAL CENTRAL AMERICAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION INDEX 
Moderador: Humberto Soto de la Rosa, Social Affairs Officer of ECLAC

Presentation: Regional Index of Central American Economic Integration (IRIEC). By Eduardo Espinoza Valverde, manager of Study Center for Economic Integration of SIECA and Nelson Salazar Recinos chief of Research and Analysis Department of the Study Center for Economic Integration of SIECA.

Questions and answers

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION IV: PANEL DISCUSSION AMONG MEMBERS OF INTEGRATION MECHANISMS. CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN INTEGRATION INDEX FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN 
Moderator: Javier Rodríguez, Analyst of the Direction of Studies and Proposals o fSELA.

• Regional Integration Index. Esteban Rogel, Technical Advisor of the Secretariat of the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR)
• The Andean Community of Nations (CAN). Luz Marina Monroy Acevedo, Director-General of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN)
• The Pacific Alliance (PA). Patricio Barrueco, Director of the Commercial Office of Chile in Costa Rica on behalf of the Pacific Alliance (AP)

CLOSING SESSION 

• Virginia Cartaya, manager of Studies and Proposals of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA).
• Eduardo Espinoza Valverde, manager of Study Center for Economic Integration of Secretariat for Central American Economic Integration (SIECA).