Political scene and economic prospects in Argentina

With Carlos Fara and Fausto Spotorno as keynote speakers, the new edition of Foro Latinoamericano Buenos Aires took place at Hotel Regal Pacific. In this case the subject was ''The political scene facing the next legislative elections and economic prospects''.

With Carlos Fara and Fausto Spotorno as keynote speakers, the new edition of Foro Latinoamericano Buenos Aires took place at Hotel Regal Pacific. In this case the subject was "The political scene facing the next legislative elections and economic prospects".

Carlos Fara is Executive Director of Carlos Fara & Asociados since 1991 (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He specializes in public opinion, electoral campaigns, estrategic communications and government marketing. He has taken part in more than 75 electoral campaigns in Argentina and Latin America, and more than 300 projects of research, counselling and training. He was professor in several universities in Argentina and is co-author to Political Marketing and Communications Manual "Acciones par auna buena comunicación". He is member of Asociación Latinoamericana de Consultores Políticos and OCPLA. Usual columnist of the newspapers Cronista and Perfil.

Fausto Spotorno is Director of Centro de Estudios Económicos at Orlando Ferreres & Asociados since 2009. Before he served as Chief Economist of that organization since 2006. At OJF, he coordinates the areas of financial and economic counselling for top companies. He also has coordinated models for the evaluation of financial assets as units linked to GDP and financial coverage of insurance companies. He is professor of political economics at Universidad Católica Argentina. He holds a BA in Economics from Universidad Católica Argentina and has a Masters degree in Finance from UCEMA.

Among the participants were the diplomats of Czech Republic, Ireland, United States and Germany. In the picture, Philomena Murnaghan, ambassador of Ireland; Carlos Fara, Fausto Spotorno and Jan Freigang, from the Department of Political Affairs at the Embassy of Germany in Argentina.