The Chile-US Free Trade Agreement and Economic Relations in the Western Hemisphere (FTAA)

Amb. Osvaldo Rosales
Director General for International Economic Relations
Ministry of International Relations, Chile

Discussant: Amb. Arturo Sarukhán
Consul-General of Mexico in New York

Following his appointment as Director General for International Economic Relations at Chile’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Osvaldo Rosales has supervised Chile’s international economic relations during the last three years. He was the chief economic negotiator during the successful negotiations of the Free Trade Agreement between Chile and the United States of America. He also headed the complex negotiations leading to the Political and Economic Association Agreement between Chile and the European Union (EU); the Free Trade Agreement between Chile and the Republic of Korea and the Free Trade Agreement between Chile and the European Free Trade Agreement (EFTA). All these agreements were reached during 2002 and the first quarter of 2003.
An economist with advanced degrees from the University of Chile, Ambassador Osvaldo Rosales is a specialist in economic development and international economics. Before this appointment at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Rosales has held senior positions at the UN’s ECLAC/CEPAL, Latin American Institute of Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), and other centers and institutions. He has been directly involved with Chile’s process of democratization and was coordinator of the macroeconomic programme of Ricardo Lagos’ presidential candidacy (1999). Ambassador Rosales has lectured and given presentations at universities, think tanks and governmental agencies of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Spain, Israel and the former Soviet Union. He has advised several Latin American governments on macroeconomic policy. He has organized several international seminars. His publications focus on the US economy, NAFTA, trade and economic integration, Chile’s export sector, globalization, and development.

Consul-General Arturo Sarukhán has had a distinguished career in the Mexican Foreign Service. In February 2003, President Vicente Fox appointed him as Consul General of Mexico in New York. He served as Director for Inter-American Negotiation in 1992 and was responsible for the Ibero-American Summit and Latin American cooperation mechanisms such as the Rio Group, the G-3 (Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia) and the Tlatelolco Treaty. He was responsible for the negotiation of the full adhesion of Argentina, Chile, and Brazil to the non-proliferation Tlatelolco Treaty. Previous to his career in government, he was Executive Secretary of the non-governmental Bilateral Commission on the Future of Mexico-United States Relations (1988-89). He has written articles in Mexican, U.S., and British publications on different issues regarding international affairs. He is a professor at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and has been a lecturer at the Center for Advanced Naval Studies of the Mexican Navy and at the Mexican National Defense College; and a guest lecturer at the Inter-American Defense College and the National Defense University (NDU) in Washington, D.C. His most recent publication is “ Drug Trafficking and Terrorism: non traditional threats to security” (2002). He received a MA in U.S. Foreign Policy and in International Economics from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University (1991). He obtained a BA in International Relations (1988) from El Colegio de México. He has received several prestigious international awards.

When: Postponed- New date to be announced.
Where: Room C204
The Graduate Center
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
(@34th Street)

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