Day 2: Extra Hemispheric Actors

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
Margaret Myers is the Director of the Asia & Latin America Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. She established the Dialogue’s China and Latin America Working Group in 2011 to examine China’s growing presence in Latin America and the Caribbean. Myers also developed the China-Latin America Finance Database, the only publicly available source of empirical data on Chinese state lending in Latin America, in cooperation with Global China Initiative at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center. In addition to maintaining the Dialogue’s China and Latin America and 美洲对话 blogs, Myers has published numerous articles on Chinese leadership dynamics, international capital flows, Chinese agricultural policy, and Asia-Latin America relations, among other topics.
Eddie Tapiero is President of the Research Commission of the Logistics Business Council (COEL) and advisor to the Board of Directors of the World Organization of Cities and Logistics Platforms. He is an international economist who researches global geopolitical, macroeconomic and logistical trends and their impacts on international trade and the Panamanian economy. In 2018 he worked on the negotiating team for the FTA between Panama and China, which has not been approved; In 2020, he advised the presidency of the republic on the Economic Recovery Plan during COVID-19 and is currently advising the Secretariat of Monitoring with prospective studies of Panama and supporting the establishment of solutions to reestablish supply chains during this period of internal friction. among other projects.
Vladimir Rouvinski is Director, Laboratory of Politics and International Relations (PoInt), and Associate Professor, Department of Political Studies, at Icesi University in Cali, Colombia. He graduated from Irkutsk State University, in Russia, majoring in history and international relations, and he also holds MA and PhD in International Development and Cooperation from Hiroshima University in Japan.Before joining Icesi University in 2007, Vladimir worked with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), education and research institutions in Russia, Japan, and Colombia, and he speaks Russian, English, and Spanish.
Evan Ellis is a Research Professor of Latin American Studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, with a focus on the region’s relationships with China and other non-Western Hemisphere actors, as well as transnational organized crime and populism in the region. He has published over 300 works, including books on China in Latin America, and Transnational Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean. He previously served on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff (S/P) with responsibility for Latin America and the Caribbean (WHA), as well as International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) issues. He has been awarded the Order of Military Merit José María Córdova by the Colombian government for his scholarship on security issues in the region.
MODERATOR
Jin (Julie) Zeng is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University. Her primary research interests are Chinese investment in Latin America, agrarian studies in contemporary China, and political economy of development. She is the author of the book, State-Led Privatization in China-The Politics of Economic Reform (Routledge, 2013). In the book, she examines the initiation, implementation, and dynamics of privatization in China. Building on rich fieldwork data gathered in three Chinese cities, the book offers the first comparative study of China’s privatization processes at the local level. She has also published articles in scholarly journals such as The Journal of Peasant Studies, Third World Quarterly, Journal of Chinese Political Science, and Asian Perspective.
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