YPF and Trends in Energy Policy

In a new meeting of the Buenos Aires Latin American Forum that took place at CADAL’s headquarters, guest speakers Raúl Ferro and Horacio Fernández analyzed “The Case of YPF and the Regional and International Trends in Energy Policy”. Attending the Forum were business directors, journalists, and representatives of the embassies.

In a new meeting of the Buenos Aires Latin American Forum that took place at CADAL's headquarters, guest speakers Raúl Ferro and Horacio Fernández analyzed "The Case of YPF and the Regional and International Trends in Energy Policy."

The forum was sponsored by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and its initiation was presented by Bernabé García Hamilton, Director of Academic Advice for CADAL.

Raúl Ferro is the Director of Business Intelligence for Business News Americas and the editor of Intelligence Series and special reports. Previously, he has worked on various business and finance publications: he was the Director of Journalism for the magazine América Economía and also worked for the Andean Report in Peru, The South Pacific Mail in Chile, the group Latin American Newsletters in London, Spanish Trends in Madrid and McGraw Hill News Services and Lagniappe Letter in New York. He is a member of the Advisory Council and as an analyst he specialized in the following topics: the business environment in Latin America, macroeconomic tendencies in Latin America, business with the base of the social entrepreneurship pyramid, and energy and mining.

Horacio Fernández is a lawyer and a master of comparative law. He worked in Argentina as the Director of Public and Legal Issues for Occidental Petroleum, Shell CA PSA and Total Austral. He joined the executive committees of the Argentine Institute of Oil and Gas, the Chamber of Oil Industry, the Chamber of Hydrocarbon-producing Businesses, and the Argentine Industrial Union. He has spent ten years as a tenured professor of law for engineers at the ITBA and he is currently in a postgraduate program at the same institution studying the economy of oil and gas. He is the secretary of the Argentine Committee of Global Advice for Energy and Coordinator for Business Advice for CADAL.

Attending the forum were business directors, journalists and representatives of the embassies of the United States, the United Kingdom, Norway, and the Czech Republic.

Horacio Fernández, Raúl Ferro, Sonia Aponte Tinao and Oscar Secco.

Micaela Hierro Dori, Gabriel Salvia, José Montaldo and Néstor Scibona.

Horacio Fernández, Martín Garcés, Bernabé García Hamilton and Gabriel Salvia.