Speakers for the Conference

Joe Arellano’s distinguished 25-year career in the beverage consumer goods industry began at Joseph E. Seagram & Sons in U.S. domestic and international sales and marketing roles. His experience there led him to Molson-Coors Brewing Company,and then to Patrón Spirits.

As one of the first employees at Patrón to focus on international and duty free markets, Joe has been instrumental in introducing and marketing the company’s ultrapremium brand portfolio into more than 130 countries and over 700 duty free stores worldwide.

Joe holds an MBA/MS degree in Technology Management from the University of Texas at Austin, and is actively involved with local New York City-based charitable organizations near his home town of Hoboken, New Jersey.

• Graduated in Business Administration from the Republic University of Uruguay
• MBA at the Austral University in Argentina.
• Participation in the opening of the Research Center of the Harvard Business School for Latin America.
• Participation in the release of the Endeavor Project in Uruguay as a venture corp.
• Professor in the Marketing Area, in the Master Program of IEEM at the University of Montevideo.

Complimentary studies:

• Seminar of Negotiation.
• Auditor of the ISO 9000 Regulation.
• Process of Regulation.
• Strategic Marketing Management Program at the Harvard Business School in 1999.

Economist. Expert Consultant in Economics from Argentina.

Speaker in ASUTIL 2006, 2007 and 2009.

Es director y fundador de M&S Consultores desde 1991, una de las consultoras económicas y financieras más importantes del país. Como director de M&S Consultores asesora a las principales empresas e instituciones argentinas y extranjeras.

Es Licenciado en Economía por la Universidad de Buenos Aires y Master en Economía por la Universidad Di tella. Se desempeñó en la Gerencia de Investigaciones Económicas y ocupó la Subgerencia del Área Externa del Banco Central de la República Argentina.

Es autor de numerosos trabajos sobre macroeconomía argentina y sector externo.

• Graduated from Academia Militar (Portuguese Military Academy), both as a Military and Civil Engineer.
  
• Completed the Engineer Officer Advanced Course at the United States Army Engineer School (Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri), as Honour Graduate.
  
• Portuguese military badges: MP Officers Course, CEDMA (Mines and Explosives) Course, NBC Officers Course, Parachutist badge.
  
• Shopping Centre management courses with APCC (Associação Portuguesa de Centros Comerciais).

OTHERS

• Guest speaker at national and international shopping centre and travel retail related events, such as APCC (Associação Portuguesa de Centros Comerciais) meetings (national) or ASUTIL 2004 (international).
  
• Guest teacher on Airport Retail Planning and Management, at the ISEC (Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências), Lisbon.

Arturo Valenzuela is Professor of Government at Georgetown University. From 1987 to 2009 he directed the Latin American Studies Program and was the founding Director of the Center for Latin American Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty in 1987 he was Professor of Political Science and Director of the Council of Latin American Studies at Duke University.
He has been a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University, the University of Sussex, the University of Florence, the University of Chile and the Catholic University of Chile and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He earned a B.A. summa cum laude and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa from Drew University. He earned the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from Columbia University. He is fluent in English, French and Spanish.

President Barak Obama appointed Dr. Valenzuela as Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs in the United States Department of State, a position he held until August 2011, when in he returned to Georgetown.
In that post he was responsible for the formulation and execution of United States policy towards the Western Hemisphere, from Canada to Argentina and Chile. As the country’s chief diplomat for the Americas he managed the second largest regional bureau at the Department of State with 50 posts and an operating budget of $376 million for FY 2010. The Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs has over 800 US Foreign and Civil Service employees and a locally engaged staff overseas of close to 8,000. The Bureau helped manage a foreign assistance budget of approximately $1.63 billion for FY 2010, excluding assistance to Haiti.

During President William Jefferson Clinton’s second term in office, Dr. Valenzuela served at the White House as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Inter-American Affairs at the National Security Council.
In that capacity he advised the President and the National Security Adviser on foreign, defense, intelligence, economic and other policy issues and helped manage the formulation and implementation of multilateral and bilateral foreign policy initiatives in the Americas.

In President Clinton’s first term, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs with primary responsibility for the implementation of U.S. foreign policy toward Mexico.

For his diplomatic contributions, he has been honored with the National Order of the Southern Cross by the government of Brazil and the Order of Boyacá by the government of Colombia.

He is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in American Higher Education. A special 2008 edition of Poder Magazine listed him as one of the 59 most influential Hispanics in the United States.

Dr. Valenzuela is a specialist on the origins and consolidation of democracy, electoral systems, civil-military relations, political parties, regime transitions and U.S.-Latin American relations, and the author or co-author of nine books, including Political Brokers in Chile and The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Chile.
His academic work has focused on the consolidation of democracy and the challenges of democratic governance and with Juan J. Linz he published The Failures of Presidential Democracy. His scholarly articles have appeared in edited collections and academic journals such as Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, Estudios Públicos and the Latin American Research Review. He serves on the editorial boards of the Foreign Policy Bulletin, the Journal of Democracy, Current History, and The Third World Quarterly.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and several academic societies, and served on the Conseil Scientific of the Institut des Amériques in Paris.

Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Dr. Valenzuela was a member of the executive committee of the board of directors of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), and a board member of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), Drew University and Santiago College in Santiago, Chile. He served on the Advisory Board of Americas Watch. He was also a member of the International Advisory Board of REPSOL/YPF in Madrid, and a board member of Corpbanca, a leading Chilean commercial bank. He has been a consultant to Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld, L.L.P. and several Fortune 500 firms. He is currently Senior Advisor for Latin America at Covington and Burling, a leading international law firm headquartered in Washington, DC.

Dr. Valenzuela has been an adviser to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and served as a consultant to the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. As part of his scholarly work he has served as an advisor on political and constitutional reform in Bolivia, Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Colombia. He has been a consultant to the Ford Foundation, the Inter-American Foundation, Freedom House and other non-profit organizations. Dr. Valenzuela has published commentaries in leading newspapers in the United States, Latin America and Europe, including a column for El Universal in Mexico City. His television appearances include ABC’s Nightline, NBC's Today Show, PBS News Hour, CNN, Fox News, Univisión, National Public Radio, C-Span, BBC World Service and others.

Education
 Ph.D. (1971) Columbia University, Political Science

Languages
 French (speak, read)  Spanish (speak, read, write)