Participants during Inauguration Session ©EC/DEVCO.G2
Speakers during Inauguration
Roland Schäfer, Director for the Americas, European External Action Service; José María Zufiaur, President of the EESC's External Relations Section; Paulo Barros Vale, President of the Latin America Follow-up Committee, EESC
Marcus Cornaro, Deputy Director General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development ©EC/DEVCO.G2
Speakers during Inauguration ©EC/DEVCO.G2
Rebeca Grynspan, Iberoamerican General Secretary ©EC/DEVCO.G2
José María Zufiaur, President of the European Economic and Social Committee's External Relations Section.
Luis Guillermo Coto Moya, Chairman of the Board of the Consultative Committee of the Central American Integration System and Erika Guzmán, Connect programme manager, EU-LAC Foundation
Anne Bergenfelt, International and Inter-institutional Relations Unit, Directorate-General for Climate Action and other panellists on The role of civil society in climate change.
Lutz Ribbe, EESC Member and President of the Sustainable Development Observatory
Antonio Jara, coordinator of the Argentina Section of Mercosur's Economic and Social Consultative Forum (General Confederation of Labour)
Kathleen Walker Shaw, EESC Member and other panelists of Session 1 - Opportunities: Towards an economic cooperation strategy beneficial to both continents
Flavia Cherry, Chair of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action and Nancy Elisabeth Fonseca Caldera, Director for International Affairs of the Employers' Confederation of the Republic of Mexico (COPARMEX)
Mario Soares, EESC member
Osvaldo Rosales, Head of International Trade and Integration at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Panelists on Session 2 - Challenges: Inequality
Víctor Báez, Secretary-General of the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA)
Orazio Belletini, President of the Ecuadorian Confederation of Civil Society Organisations
Beethoven Herrera Valencia, Doctor in Economics, Emeritus Professor at the National University of Colombia and Senior Lecturer at the Externado University of Colombia
José Isaías Rodríguez García-Caro, EESC member
Frédéric Lapeyre, Head of the Informal Economy Unit, ILO
Fabiola da Silva Nader Motta, Director of Institutional Relations of the Organisation of Brazilian Cooperatives (TCO)
Giuseppe Iuliano, EESC member and Amanda Claribel Villatoro, Secretary for Trade Union Policy and Education of the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas
Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Member of the European Parliament and Co-president of the EU-Latin America Joint Parliamentary Assembly
Participants during round of questions
Paulo Barros Vale, President of the Latin America Follow-up Committee, EESC