2017 Latin American Cities Conferences: São Paulo

João Doria is the mayor of São Paulo. He won the election during the first round, winning a historic 53 percent of votes. Doria is also president (on leave) of GrupoDoria, founder and president (on leave) of the executive committee of LIDE (Grupo de Líderes Empresariais), an...

José Berenguer is the president of J.P. Morgan Brazil, joining the company in 2013. From 2012 to 2013, he was CEO of Gávea Crédito Estruturado, responsible for the creation and development of the department of structural credit. From 2007 to 2012, Berenguer worked at Banco...

Francisco Cestero is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton based in the firm's São Paulo office. Cestero's recent restructuring experience includes representing the ad hoc group of bondholders and DIP lenders in connection with the ongoing restructuring and financing of...

Gonzalo Fernandez is managing director at Partners Group, one of the largest private equity, infrastructure, real estate, and private debt investment groups in the world. He is a member of the Global Executive Committee for Partners Group, head of the Private Equity team for...

Rafael Guedes is Fitch Ratings’ country business leader for Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. He is responsible for managing and overseeing Fitch’s operations in these countries. Prior to joining Fitch in 1999, Guedes worked for nine years for UBS both in Zurich and in...

Zeina Latif is the chief-economist for Grupo XP. She has worked in various financial institutions such as HSBC Asset, ABN Amro Real, ING, and RBS. Latif has been a columnist for Agência Estado since 2013. She has lectured at Mackenzie and Ibmec. Latif has a master's and doctorate...

Telma Marotto is a news manager at Bloomberg in Brazil currently in charge of Bloomberg News service in Portuguese and Spanish. She has been working at Bloomberg for the past 17 years. Currently, Marotto leads the development of the Spanish news service in Latin America just...

Rodolfo G. Spielmann is managing director and head of Latin America at CPP Investment Board. In this role, he is a member of CPPIB's Latam regional Investment Committee and leads all of CPPIB's investment activities in the Latin America region, including Public and Private...

Deborah Stern Vieitas is the CEO at the American Chamber for Brazil. First woman in this position in 96 years of Amcham’s history, Stern Vieitas was also elected Top Ten Business Women in Brazil in 2014 by Valor Econômico, a leading Brazilian economic newspaper. With a solid...

Matheus Villares is the managing director for Temasek Brazil, heading Temasek’s Brazilian office since September 2008. He is a board member of Hidrovias do Brasil, Klabin, and Burger King Brazil. Prior to joining Temasek, Villares was head of M&A for Citigroup Capital Markets in...

Ragnhild Melzi is Americas Society/Council of the Americas’ vice president of Public Policy Programs and Corporate Relations. She provides leadership for the organizations’ international programming, which attracts top government officials, global business leaders, and prominent...