IHS Mexican Economic Outlook Conference

Rafael Amiel

Regional Manging Director, Latin America & Caribbean

Amiel is Regional Managing Director for Latin America and the Caribbean in the Country Intelligence Group. He is responsible for coordinating the analysis and forecasts of IHS economists and analysts who cover 42 countries in this region, including the Caribbean islands. He holds a PhD in economics from Florida International University (FIU), where he also served as adjunct professor of economics and was a research associate in FIU's Latin American and Caribbean Center.

Gregory Daco

Principal US Economist, US Macroeconomics, IHS Global Insight

Raul Dary

Sales Manager, Latin America

Raul Dary is Sales Manager responsible for the commercial development of the Insight businesses in Latin America for IHS (CERA, Global Insight, Herold and SRIC). Dary joined IHS in 2003 and has since taken roles of increasing scope in the commercial development of Latin America. As part of his role, Dary coordinates the Mexico Economic and Automotive conferences 3 times a year in Mexico and participates in other IHS events in the region.

A native of Spain, he has acquired over the years significant Latin American experience after having lived and traveled extensively in the continent.

Dary holds a degree in Business Administration from Suffolk University, Boston and is fluent in Spanish, English and French.

Carlos Dominguez Virgen

Investigador Asociado, Cátedra Daimler-Anahuac en Cultura y Educación Vial

Dra. Laura Iturbide

Directora de IDEA, Universidad de Anahuac

Alejandra Leon

IHS CERA Associate

Alejandra León, IHS CERA Associate, specializes in the Latin America oil and gas upstream and in refined products analysis, with particular focus on market fundamentals, economics, and regulation. She also has experience in international trade and industrial policy. She is a regular contributor to the IHS CERA Latin America Energy Watch and World Oil Watch. Ms. León has participated in several studies to advise energy and financing companies about market opportunities throughout Latin America. Most recently she collaborated on analyses of the natural gas market analysis for Mexico, opportunities for imported refined products in Brazil, refined products deregulation strategies, and energy assets evaluation. Before joining IHS CERA Ms. León collaborated on various studies in the public and private sectors in Mexico and developed particular expertise in economic, social, and statistical analysis. Ms. León holds a degree from the University of Mexico.

Mario Veraldo

Trade and Marketing Director, Maersk

Guido Vildozo

Associate Director, IHS Automotive

Vildozo has over 10 years of experience at IHS Automotive and its predecessor companies. At IHS Vildozo is responsible for managing the automotive vehicle sales forecasts in Latin America. His primary responsibility is oversight of industry trends in the region and developing forecasts for the market. His area of expertise is product planning and strategy and their effect on vehicle demand. Vildozo has also worked in the automotive areas of manufacturers' product cycles, production capacity constraints, investment on capacity and import/export strategies. Finally, Vildozo puts his economics background to work by analyzing the political/economical landscapes of the Americas and their role on vehicle demand.

He has a graduate degree in economics from Suffolk University in Boston.