Latin American Capital Markets

xFOCUS ON CAPITALlyst with Freddie Mac. He holds an MBA in finance and a PhD in financial economicsfrom the State University of New York and a BSc from the University of the WestIndies.Vb/er/ono F. Garcia holds a PhD from the University of Chicago. He has been aprincipal economist and executive director at the World Bank He has done extensiveempirical work on open macroeconomics and financial sector issues, and currentlyheads Washington International Advisers, a consulting firm based in Washington,DC., and Buenos Aires.Luis Alberto Giorgio is a financial analyst at the Inter-American Development BankA graduate of the University of Minnesota and the University of Buenos Aires, he wasdeputy director general of the Center of Latin American Monetary Studies and managingdirector of the Center for Monetary and Banking Studies of the Central Bankof Argentina. He has taught monetary and banking courses at the Anahuac University(Mexico) and the University of Buenos Aires.Karen Goldstein Rossotto is a senior counsel in the Division of Investment Managementof the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She served as a professionalstaff member with the U.S. Senate Banking Committee's Subcommittee on InternationalFinance and Monetary Policy. She holds a BA in economics and political sciencefrom the University of Wisconsin, a JD from Cornell University Law School, and anMSc in financial and commercial regulation from the London School of Economics.Felipe Gomez-Acebo is a financial specialist with the Inter-American DevelopmentBank working as a task manager for projects in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay,and Uruguay. He was a capital market development specialist with the Bank andheld executive positions in the Spanish stock exchange system. He holds an MBAfrom ESADE of Barcelona and a master's degree in law from the Universidad Autonomade Madrid.Roberta S. Karmel is a professor of law and co-director of the Centre for the Studyof International Business Law, Brooklyn Law School. She is a director of the MallinckrodtGroup, Inc. and Kemper National Insurance Company, and was formerly a commissionerof the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and public director of theNew York Stock Exchange. She has written more than 30 articles for legal journalsand writes a regular column for the New York Law Journal.Copyright © by the Inter-American Development Bank. All rights reserved.For more information visit our website: www.iadb.org/pub