Luis Almagro was reelected for a second term as secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS) on March 20, 2020. He was first elected to the position on March 18, 2015, with the support of 33 of the 34 member states and one abstention.
FDA Latin America Director Katherine Serrano discussed regulation challenges in the age of pandemics, global trade, and innovation.
The exhibition explored the work of a generation of artists who shaped New York City's artistic and cultural landscape.
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Jacobo Singer is the president at dLocal and leads a broad range of initiatives and oversees dLocal’s IT and business systems and is responsible for keeping dLocal’s rigorous expansion efforts on track. Singer was previously dLocal’s CTO and has designed and built their payments platform from the ground up. Prior to dLocal, he led product and engineering teams at AstroPay where he gained deep technology and project management expertise. He holds a bachelor’s of science degree in information technology from Universidad ORT Uruguay.
Nicolás Jodal, together with Ing. Breogán Gonda, is the co-creator of GeneXus, the world's leading tool for making mission critical applications on multiple platforms, using artificial intelligence. The creation of GeneXus earned them both the National Engineering Award—by the National Engineering Academy of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay. Currently, Mr. Jodal is the CEO of the GeneXus company, the Uruguayan company that created the namesake software used in more than 45 countries. Jodal is also an active promoter of entrepreneurship.
Azucena Arbeleche is the minister of economy and finances of Uruguay. Currently, as the minister of economy and finances, she is combatting the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Uruguay. In 2001, she joined the macroeconomic advisory of the Ministry of Economy and Finance and later began to work in the recently created management and debt control unit of Uruguay’s Ministry of Economy which she directed between 2011 and 2014.
Omar Paganini is the current minister of industry, energy and mining in the Government of the Republic of Uruguay. In 2003, he became dean of the engineering faculty of the Catholic University of Uruguay. Then, he served as vice chancellor of economic management and development of that same institution and up until his appointment as minister of Industry, Energy and Mining, he was the director of the UCU business school. Previously, between 2001 and 2003, he joined the consulting firm ITC of Antel.
Before assuming this role in 2017, Katherine Serrano served nine years in the Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health in Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health’s Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health (CDRH). She began her FDA career as part of the 2008 inaugural class of FDA fellows and has worked as a scientific reviewer and served as the Diabetes Diagnostic Devices Branch Chief and the Deputy Director of FDA’s Division of Chemistry and Toxicology Devices.
