President and CEO of Bayer Mexico, and Head of Crop Science Business in the North Latin America Region
Manuel Bravo is president and CEO of Bayer Mexico, and head of Crop Science business in the North Latin America Region (Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, and the countries of Central America and Caribbean.) Bravo is Mexican and has dedicated most of his career to.SEE MORE
President & Chief Executive Officer U.S. Dairy Export Council
Krysta Harden is president and CEO of the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC), she leverages experience with agriculture, sustainability, food policy and the federal government to help fulfill USDEC’s mission to promote dairy exports and enrich the well- being of people.SEE MORE
Integration and Trade Section, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Eric Farnsworth, Vice President, Council of the Americas
Steve Liston, Senior Director, Council of the Americas (moderator)
“2021’s gonna look very good from a trade perspective because 2020 was pretty bad,” said Ken Roberts, who participated in a panel co-hosted by Council of the Americas and WorldCity analyzing Latin American trade in 2020 and projections for 2021.
Mainly due to the impact of the coronavirus, 2020 saw a decline in trade in Latin America, especially in the first half of the year. Critically, the commodity sector was particularly affected by a global drop in consumption. However, the panel gave reason for optimism: recovery of trade opportunities has been faster than expected. Roberts cited the potential U.S. stimulus, rising consumption, and a strong stock market, as reasons to be optimistic about 2021.
New Northern Winds for Central America
Strengthening trade between the US and the region, fighting corruption in the Northern Triangle and reducing illegal migration flows, are some of the axes on which Joe Biden, the US president who has been sworn in, is expected to focus.
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 Biden, representative of the Democratic Party and winner of the last US elections, whose results were close, arrives at the White House to replace Donald Trump.
The new US president assumed power on the morning of January 20, in a context of falling economic activity, high levels of unemployment, a health crisis caused by the spread of covid-19 and social divisions within the country due to the results of the last election, in which Trump was defeated.