Day 2: Energy and Strategic Mining

This event originally took place on Friday, May 10, 2024
The Hemispheric Security Conference (HSC) is an annual conference where experts from academia, governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, and private sectors converge to examine the most pressing security challenges facing the Western Hemisphere.
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Panel
Raul Belens Jungmann Pinto has been the CEO of the Brazilian Mining Institute (IBRAM) since March 2022. He brings all his experience to lead the Institute and the associated mining companies to structure a bold process of transformation of the Brazilian mineral sector, in order to make it even safer, sustainable and responsible. Raul Jungmann’s professional and political careers intertwine over the years. Among the most remarkable passages in his history, the periods in which he was Minister of State for four terms stand out, in the portfolios of Land Policy (1996-1999), Agrarian Development (1999-2002), Defense (2016-2018) and Public Security (2018-2019). He was a congressman for three terms: 2003-2006; 2007-2010; 2015-2018.
Ali Rahman currently serves as General Counsel for the Global Oil Management Group and a Senior Fellow at the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy. Mr. Rahman also sits on the board of a number of companies with operations in MENA and Latin America. He has long-standing experience in high-level geopolitics with relationships spanning multiple regions, including Latin America, MENA, West Africa, and the Balkans. Additionally, Ali has strong expertise in petroleum products economics, upstream, downstream and midstream infrastructure and logistics. At the Global Oil Management Group, Mr. Rahman provides leadership and oversight to key projects in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East.
Ignacio Celorrio has over 25 years of experience counseling international clients in legal and institutional affairs in the mining sector, and has been honored for his excellent service by Chambers & Partners, Best Lawyers, and Who’s Who Legal. Through his practice, Mr. Celorrio has engaged with federal and provincial authorities, NGOs, and other civic society participants in every Argentine mining province, as well as with several Canadian and Australian institutions. In addition to belonging to several legal and mining associations, he has been a Board Member of the Argentine Chamber of Mining Entrepreneurs for more than 10 years. He was Executive Vice-President of Latin America for Lithium Americas before assuming his current position with Lithium Argentina. He is currently the Chair of Administrative Law at the University of Argentine Social Museum, and holds degrees from the Argentine Catholic University and Austral University, as well as a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires Law School.
Scott B. MacDonald is a Fellow with the Caribbean Policy Consortium, and chief economist at Smith’s Research & Gradings. Prior to that, he was the head of research at MC Asset Management LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation (2012-2015); head of credit and economic research at Aladdin Capital Management in Stamford, Connecticut (2000-2011); chief economist for KWR International (1999-2000); director of sovereign research at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (1994-1998); sovereign risk analyst and director at Credit Suisse (1992-1994); and an international economic adviser in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in Washington, D.C. (1988-1992). He is the author or editor of 19 books and numerous articles on economic affairs, covering events in the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and North America.
MODERATOR
Dr. Anthony Pereira is the Director of the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University. From 2010 to 2020 he was the founding director of the Brazil Institute at King’s College London. His research interests include authoritarianism and democracy, human rights, public security policy, environmental issues, and international relations in Latin America and the Caribbean. He has held positions at the New School for Social Research, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Tulane University, and the University of East Anglia, including being a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at the Federal University of Pernambuco and at the Institute of International Relations at the University of São Paulo in Brazil.
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