Discussions will take place at the Global Forum Latin America and the Caribbean
to be held next Thursday in New York and will be a plural platform for the exchange of ideas on the role of Latin America and the Caribbean on the world stage, its implications and challenges
The Global Forum Latin America and the Caribbean 2024, to be held next Thursday in New York, will discuss the political, democratic, social and economic present and future of the region based on the momentum of various international organizations.
The Global Democracy and Development Foundation (Funglode) and its sister institution in the United States, the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD), in coordination with the Centre for Economics and Development Policy (CDEP), will hold this meeting with the aim of providing a plural platform for the exchange of ideas on the role of Latin America and the Caribbean on the global stage, its implications and challenges.
According to Funglode, a foundation headed by former Dominican President Leonel Fernández, another great theme of the event will be the accelerated advancement of technologies, such as artificial intelligence in democracies and electoral processes.
In this hybrid-format event to be held at the Kellogg Center at Columbia University, special attention will be paid to recent and ongoing electoral processes in Latin America, the United States and the world.
In addition, the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Alicia Bárcena, will give a speech on the political and social situation in Latin America, while writer and lawyer Maureen Webb will discuss AI in democracy, governance and elections.
The welcome words will be given by Leonel Fernández and the keynote address “Global economic and political perspectives” will be given by Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University.
In addition, this forum, which is supported by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Institute for Latin American Studies of Columbia University (ILAS) and the Global Americans ideas laboratory (think tank) Global Americans, will be developed into four panels.
Forum participants
The first, on economics, global and regional politics, will be attended by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, executive secretary of Cepal; José Antonio Ocampo, co-director of the Economic and Political Concentration of the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University; Daniel Titelman, director of the Economic Development Division of Cepal; and Professor Jorge Heine of Boston University.
The second panel, which will deal with the political and social current affairs of Latin America, will include Denise Dresser, professor at the Department of Political Science at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico; Jorge Liotti, head of the political section of the newspaper La Nación; Gerardo Munck, professor of political science and international relations at the University of Southern California; and Will Freeman, academic (Efellow) of Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Latin America and the elections in the United States, the role of the Latino vote and the economic and foreign policy implications will be the themes of the third panel.
There will be former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda; Professor Eduardo Gamarra, of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the International University of Florida; the interim president of Global Americans, Tulio Vera; and Mark Hugo López, director of research on Raza and Etnia, of the Pew Research Center.
On artificial intelligence and its challenges will be given by the professor of the Complutense University of Madrid Javier del Rey Morató, Bentley University professor Noah Giansiracusa and Mekela Panditharatne, advisor to the Programme for Democracy at the Brennan Center at New York University.
The Global Forum, which has been held since 2018, brings together representatives of the main think tanks and think tanks in Latin America and the Caribbean, academics and personalities from the political, economic and social fields of the region.