Morning

SESIÓN INAUGURAL  

• Virginia Cartaya (Spanish). Director of Studies and Proposals of the Permanent Secretariat of SELA.
• Hugo Beteta. Director of ECLAC Subregional Headquarters in Mexico

SESSION I: REGIONAL AND SUBREGIONAL INTEGRACIÓN MECHANISMS  

Moderator: Jorge Mario Martínez. Chief of the International Trade and Industry Unit of ECLAC  

• Desiree Field-Ridley, Adviser, Single Market and Economy, Secretary of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The Caribbean Community (CARICOM): Prospective vision for integration. 

• Eduardo Espinoza, Director of the Centre for Studies on Economic Integration, Secretariat for Central American Economic Integration (SIECA). Status of Central American economic integration (Spanish). 

• César Montaño, Director-General, Andean Community (CAN). The Andean Community (Spanish).

• Esteban Rogel, Technical Adviser of the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR). MERCOSUR: Structure and agenda (Spanish). 

• Santiago Mateos, Director for the Pacific Alliance, General Directorate of American Regional Organizations and Mechanisms, Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Mexico. Pacific Alliance (Spanish). 

Questions and answers

Objective: Present strengths, relevant actions that are under way and future challenges.

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION II: REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS THAT SUPPORT INTEGRATION

Moderator: Virginia Cartaya. Director of Studies and Proposals of the Permanent Secretariat of SELA. 

• Javier Rodríguez, Analyst of Studies and Proposals of the Permanent Secretariat of SELA. Report on economic integration: A tool for follow-up of regional integration (Spanish). 

• Christian Leroux, Head of the Trade Negotiations and Agreements Department of the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI). The process of integration in ALADI (Spanish). 

• Jorge Mario Martínez, Chief of the International Trade and Industry Unit of ECLAC. Mechanisms and instruments to support integration (Spanish). Video of ECLAC (Spanish). 

• Roberto Carlos Gutiérrez Martínez, Manager of Programs and Initiatives, Subregional Office in Mexico, SEGIB. Video: Ibero-American Cultural Space (Spanish) 

Questions and answers

Objective: Present actions for monitoring regional integration processes in Latin America and the Caribbean.

LUNCH

SESSION III: MEASURING REGIONAL INTEGRATION 

Moderator: Ramón Padilla, Chief of the Economic Development Unit of ECLAC 

• Humberto Soto, Official in charge of the Social Development Unit, ECLAC. The need to measure asymmetries and convergence in LAC (Spanish). 

• Larissa Plachinda, Eurasian Economic Commission. Tools to measure Regional Integration in the Eurasian Economic Union (Spanish).

• Wafa Aidi, Official of Economic Affairs, Economic Commission for Africa. Africa Regional Integration Index (Slides) Africa Regional Integration Index (Video). 

• José Durán, Chief of the Economic Integration Unit, ECLAC. Value chains and Regional Integration: The contribution of the IOM (Input-Ouput-Matrix) (Spanish).  

• Javier Rodríguez, Analyst of Studies and Proposals of the Permanent Secretariat of SELA. Integration Index for Latin America and the Caribbean (Spanish). 

Questions and answers 

Objective: Present methodologies, proposed measurement and monitoring of regional integration processes.

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION IV: THE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE CHALLENGES OF INTEGRATION 

Moderator: Emilio Urquillas, Country Representative in Mexico, CAF 

• Rommanee Kananurak, Excma. Ambassador of Thailand in Mexico and Chairman of ASEAN Working Group. ASEAN Pacific. 

• Jose Antonio Ardavin, Head Latin America and Caribbean Unit Strategic Partnerships and New Initiatives (OECD). Integration of Latin America into global governance and redefinition of multilateralism (Spanish). 

• Luz María de la Mora, Researcher at CIDE. The renegotiation of NAFTA and lessons for the Americas (Spanish). 

• Pedro Caldentey, Director of the Department of Economics at University Loyola Andalucia. The European project and its challenge (Spanish). 
  
  
• Rosario Santa Gadea, Director of the Centre for China and Asia-Pacific Studies at the University of the Pacific.  The Pacific Basin as a space for economic integration in the 21^st century (Spanish). 

Questions and answers 

Objective: Discuss the major changes in the international environment that affect integration processes and the challenges they pose.

Wednesday, 07 March

SESSION V: PROSPECTS AND LONG-TERM VISION OF INTEGRATION 

Moderator: Olaf de Groot. International Trade and Industry Unit of ECLAC  

• Concepción Olavarrieta, Secretary of the Ibero-American Prospective Network. Prospective and the Future Global Situation Index (Spanish).  Sofía visits México (Video). Millenium Project  (Web site).

• Virginia Cartaya, Director of Studies and Proposals of the Permanent Secretariat of SELA.  A prospective vision of Latin American and Caribbean integration (Spanish). 

• Alejandro Ramos, Senior Specialist in Integration, INTAL-IDB. The agenda of integration: Interaction of national and regional goals (Spanish)

• Ana Sanjuan, Director for Regional Initiatives, CAF-Development Bank of Latin America.  From the integration we have to the integration we need: The path towards productivity (Spanish).

 Questions and answers

Objective: Reflect on the potential development of integration processes and the main lines of action suggested to achieve them.

COFFEE BREAK 

CONCLUDING SESSION 

• Jorge Mario Martínez, Chief of the International Trade and Industry Unit of ECLAC.
• Concepción Olavarrieta, Secretary of the Ibero-American Prospective Network.
• José Durán, Chief of the Economic Integration Unit, ECLAC.

Questions:

• What advances have been achieved in integration processes in Latin America and the Caribbean?
• What advances have been achieved in tools for measuring integration processes?
• What challenges do regional integration processes face?

CLOSING SESSION 

• Virginia Cartaya. Director of Studies and Proposals of the Permanent Secretariat of SELA
• Jorge Mario Martínez, Chief of the International Trade and Industry Unit of ECLAC.