09:30 – 09:40 | Welcome and Opening Remarks

• Eduardo Posada-Carbó, Director, Latin American Centre, University of Oxford
• Carlos Díaz-Rosillo, Director, Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom, Florida International University

Part 1 Authoritarianism and the Obstacles for Change Chair: Armando Jiménez

09:40 – 10.20 | Opening Keynote: The Challenges of Mexican Democracy

• Felipe Calderón, Former President of Mexico
  10:20 – 10:50 | Audience Q&A and Discussion

10:50 – 11:20 | Coffee break

11:20– 12:00 | Autocratisation and democratic resistance in Latin America

• Maryhen Jiménez, Latin American Centre, University of Oxford
  12:00– 12:30 | Audience Q&A and Debate

12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch

Part 2 – Development and Inequality Chair: Belén Villegas Plá

13:30 – 14:00 | The Challenge of Inequality in Latin America

• Diego Sánchez-Ancochea, Professor of the Political Economy of Development, Latin America Centre, Oxford

14:00 – 14:30 | Discussion and Audience Q&A

14:30 – 15:30 | Panel Discussion: How to confront inequality and promote development?
Rodrigo Aguilar, Germán Ríos, Baroness Hooper

15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break

Part 3 – Latin America in the World Chair: Julio Crespo MacLennan

16:00 – 16:30 | A New Voice for Latin America in the World

• Guillermo Lasso, Former President of Ecuador

16:30 – 17:00 | The Trump Administration and Its Impact on Latin America: Challenges and Opportunities

• Carlos E. Díaz-Rosillo, Director, Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom FIU

17:00-17:30 Discussion and Q&A

17:30 – 18:30 | Panel Discussion: Latin America in the World

Grace Livingstone, Christopher Sabatini, Felipe Krauser