Speaker Biographies
December 13, 2005
Jaime Aparicio is ambassador of Bolivia to the United States. Ambassador Aparicio previously served as executive secretary for the Summits of the Americas Secretariat at the Organization of American States (OAS), director of the Office of Summit Follow-Up at the OAS, and senior adviser of political affairs to the secretary-general of the OAS. Ambassador Aparicio served as a career diplomat for the Bolivian Foreign Office. He also held posts as vice minister and acting minister of foreign affairs and national coordinator for the first Summit of the Americas in Miami and for the Summit of the Americas for Sustainable Development in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. In addition, Ambassador Aparicio was deputy director of the Bolivian newspaper La Razón, a professor of international law at Catholic University in La Paz, Bolivia, and a professor of Bolivian diplomatic history and diplomatic law at the Diplomatic Academy of Bolivia.
Luis Alberto Moreno, former ambassador of Colombia to the U.S., was elected president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in October 2005. He leads this key multilateral development bank at, in his words, “a potentially transforming moment” in the history of Latin America. Ambassador Moreno has cited three years of growth in the region, low inflation, and democratically elected governments committed to putting their public finances in order. “Our governments increasingly recognize that the current levels of poverty and inequity in our region are morally intolerable and comprise an enormous burden on development and democratic governance,” Moreno said upon assuming office. On the heels of the Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Moreno will explain how the IDB can support responsible policies that help governments in the region create economic opportunity for their people.
Roger F. Noriega is a visiting fellow coordinating the American Enterprise Institute’s program on Western Hemisphere issues. Twice appointed by President George W. Bush (and confirmed by the U.S. Senate) and with 10-year career on Capitol Hill, Ambassador Noriega’s breadth of experience and contacts offers strategic vision and practical insight on the Americas. As assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Ambassador Noriega managed a 3,000-person team of professionals in Washington and 50 diplomatic posts to design and implement political and economic strategies in Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. As U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States Noriega coordinated complex and sensitive multilateral diplomacy in a 34-member international organization to bolster OAS efforts to promote trade, fight illicit drugs, and defend democracy. Other experiences include: senior advisor, OAS senior policy advisor, U.S. Mission to the OAS; various program management and public affairs positions, U.S. Agency for International Development and U.S. Department of State; press secretary and foreign policy advisor, U.S. Representative Robert Whittaker (R-KS); and research assistant, Kansas Secretary of State.
Susan Segal is president and CEO of the Council of the Americas/Americas Society.
Previously, Ms. Segal was a partner and the Latin American group head at JP Morgan Partners/Chase Capital Partners. Prior to that she was a senior managing director focused on Emerging Markets, Investment Banking, and Capital Markets at Chemical/Chase Banks. Ms. Segal was also actively involved in the Sovereign Debt Restructurings and chaired the Chilean Advisory Committee. Ms. Segal is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Advisory Board of Endeavor and the Boards of Directors of the Tinker Foundation, Corp Group, StarMedia, Inc., SportsYa.com Viajo.com, MercadoLibre.com, Obsidiana, HSM and Americanas.com.
Jane L. Barber Thery joined the Summits of the Americas’ Secretariat as a principal specialist in October 2001. She came to the OAS in 1995 as a senior trade specialist at the OAS Trade Unit which provides support to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations. Ms. Thery has held senior positions on the staff in the U.S. House of Representatives’ Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, at the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs, and with the Ford Foundation in South America. She is responsible for follow-up activities and support to the Summit mandate areas of: trade and investment; corporate social responsibility; agriculture; growth with equity; and science and technology.
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