Murillo de Aragão Delivers Keynote Speech at EMTA’s Annual Meeting
EMTA’s Annual Meeting was held on Thursday, December 3, 2009, at Citigroup, 388 Greenwich Street in lower Manhattan.
Murillo de Aragão (Arko Advice and GlobalSource Partners) delivered the keynote speech at EMTA’s Annual Meeting on the “Brazilian Elections: Challenges and Scenarios”.
Murillo de Aragão serves as GlobalSource Partner’s political advisor in Brazil and is the President of Arko Advice, a Brasilia-based public policy consulting firm which he founded in 1982. Dr. Aragão was a fellow at the Social Science Research Council in New York, and since 1988 has served on the board of the London-based International Federation of the Periodical Press. He was executive vice president of the Brazilian Magazine Association, and currently serves on the advisory boards of Instituto Ayrton Senna, Comgás and Embratel Participações.
Dr. Aragão is the author of “Grupos de Pressão no Congresso Nacional;” was publisher/organizer of the “Perfi l Parlamentar Brasileiro;” and is a columnist for the monthly Revista Imprensa. He co-authored the book “Engaging Countries.”
The Annual Meeting’s traditional Sell-side and Investor Panels focused on EM prospects in the context of current market conditions. Joyce Chang (JPMorgan) moderated the Sell-side Panel, which included Piero Ghezzi (Barclays Capital), Kasper Bartholdy (Credit Suisse), Anne Milne (Deutsche Bank), Paulo Leme (Goldman Sachs) and Daniel Tenengauzer (Bank of America Merrill Lynch).
The Investor Panel was led by Citi’s David Lubin, who polled leading fund managers on their expectations for 2010. Speakers included James Barrineau (AllianceBernstein), Tulio Vera (Bladex Asset Management), Hari Hariharan (NWI Investment Management) and Mark Dow (Pharo Management).
For further information concerning EMTA’s Annual Meeting, please contact Jonathan Murno at jmurno@emta.org.