HORIZONTES LEADERSHIP PODCASTS
The skills that Latin American business leaders need to succeed
Engaging conversations, some in English, others in Spanish, with a variety of leaders:
including politicians, business magnates, subject matter experts, futurists, financiers, cultural icons, entrepreneurs, inventors, intellectuals, academics, and more.
Carefully crafted discussions designed to inform, instruct and inspire.
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Contrarian investing in Latin America
A conversation with Fernando Donayre, CEO, Inca Investments
September 8, 2023
Fernando Donayre runs a $600M Latin America equities fund that is unlike any in the industry. Not only does Inca Investments (his firm) enter and exit at times different from the rest of the herd, they also hold onto equities, on average, for 2-4 years versus closer to a 9 month average by competing firms. With industry beating returns logged consistently over two decades, there are lessons to be learned in Fernando’s contrarían investment approach. Whether you dabble in the market, work in finance or lead a LatAm business, you need to understand the logic and virtues of contrarían investing in the emerging market world’s most volatile region – Latin America.
Las idiosincrasias de la economía latinoamericana
Una conversación con Alberto Bernal, Jefe de mercados emergentes y estratega global, XP Investments
1 de septiembre de 2023
Alberto Bernal ha llevado una distinguida carrera como uno de los analistas económicos más destacados de América Latina, trabajando en Bogotá, Miami, Nueva York y Londres. Su colorido enfoque narrativo para explicar los ritmos económicos únicos de América Latina lo convierte en una joya poco común: un economista comprensible y agradable de escuchar.
The Complex Web of China-Latin American Relations
An insightful conversation with Dr. R. Evan Ellis
July 16, 2023
Dr. Robert-Evan Ellis is the pre-eminent scholar on the subject of China-Latin American geo-political and commercial engagement. Over the last 15 years, Dr. Ellis has published five books and dozens of articles on the broad, complex and evolving relationship between China, its companies, its branches of government, its military, its intelligence services and its cultural diplomats and Latin America.
How A 30-50 Year Forecast Shapes Your Business Decision-Making
A conversation with Matthew Griffin, founder, 311 Institute, aka “The fanatical futurist”
July 6, 2023
Matthew Griffin advises governments (US, UAE, UK) and global corporations (Samsung, Disney, UBS, Bloomberg, Assurant, Dentons, among others) on the future. His job is to paint a picture, or series of scenarios of what his client’s jurisdiction or industry will look like 30 to 50 years from now.
How does he make such predictions? To what purpose? And what might we expect in the years ahead? These are questions that Matthew Griffin will help answer.
Mexico─Predicting the Future by Understanding the Recent Past
A conversation with Roberto Salinas León, Mexico Business Forum
June 20, 2023
Roberto Salinas has been a highly visible and influential analyst and commentator of Mexican politics and economy since the onset of the NAFTA in 1994. So who better to turn to in order to understand the sudden rise of the Morena party and what lies ahead politically and economically for Mexico when AMLO’s six-year Presidential term ends as well as the risks facing investors today.
The Rapid Evolution of Media, Advertising and Brand Management in Latin America
A conversation with Julian Porras, Chief Executive, Latin America, Omnicom Media Group
March 15, 2023
Omnicom Media Group may be the largest company that you’ve never heard of. With $13bn in annual revenue and over 60,000 employees worldwide, OMG is a behemoth in the world of advertising, media buying and marketing. Few industries have been disrupted more than media and very few executives have thrived throughout the tumult of disruption. Julian Porras is one of the few, a veteran of Latin American marketing and advertising whose wisdom was built on the battlefield of volatile Latin American markets.
Taking the Long View with Latin America
A conversation with Guillermo Rishchynski, former ambassador to Brazil, Colombia and Mexico
February 22, 2023
Ambassador Guillermo Rishchynski recently capped a 37-year diplomatic career with ambassadorial posts in Brasilia, Bogotá, Mexico City and the UN (New York) before serving as Executive Director at the IDB in Washington. Few can claim a career as widely or as deeply steeped in Latin America.
Embroiled as we are in the daily (and often damning) news cycle, it is rare and instructive, the opportunity to listen for 60 minutes to a regional veteran with a long view on Latin America.
Gold, community and politics – the profits and perils of mining in Latin America
A conversation with Kelvin Dushnisky, Former President, Barrick Gold
January 13, 2023
Capital-intensive projects in Latin America are inherently polemic. To come to fruition, these economically vital investments must overcome political interference, local community angst, competing economic interests, organized crime threats, environmental and indigenous rights activists, among other challenges. Kelvin Dushnisky has managed the above ground risks of some of the largest mines ever built in Latin America. What he is at liberty to share is eye-opening and instructive.
How to climb the corporate ladder up and out of Latin America
A conversation with Dominique Virchaux, President, South America at Korn Ferry
December 7, 2022
Dominique Virchaux has counselled hundreds of Latin American corporate leaders on their career path up and out of the Latin American region. His advice is invaluable to those who share such aspirations.
If You Seek Growth, Be Bold
A conversation with Mauricio Ortiz, Regional President, Latin America at Boston Scientific
November 9, 2022
Mauricio Ortiz has consistently achieved enviable profit growth for Boston Scientific, in a highly regulated industry (healthcare), in a region wrought with political interference and economic volatility. How did he do it? By being bold and nurturing a tight knit culture of managerial excellence.
