March 16th / 16 de Marzo

11am (Buenos Aires) / 9 am (Chicago) / 3pm (Madrid)

11.00h-11.15.00h Opening Remarks

Fernando Straface / City of Buenos Aires Secretary for International Relations
Ivo H. Daalder / President of Chicago Council on Global Affairs
José Octavio Bordon / President of CARI

11.15h-12.00.00h Global cities and the “new normal” from a Latin America´s Perspective.

Challenges and future perspectives.

Francisco Resnicoff / Undersecretary of International Relations of the City of Buenos Aires
Andrea Laverde / Deputy Director of International Affairs of the City of Bogotá
Diana Alarcón González / General Coordinator of Advisors and International Affairs of Mexico City
Moderator:
Adam Ratzlaff / Latin American Editor of the Diplomatic Courier

12.00h-12.50.00h Covid Impacts and great powers cooperation: thinking geopolitics of cities
Francisco de Santibañes / Vice President of CARI
Michael Cohen / Director of the Doctoral Program in Public and Urban Policy of The New School
University
Jocelyn Perry / Global Shifts Program Manager of the University of Pennsylvania
Mauricio Rodas / Former Mayor of Quito
Moderator:
Carolina Cuenca / General Director of International Relations and Cooperation in Government of the

City of Buenos Aires
12.50h-13.35.00h Urban Planning and Innovation in a Post-Covid Environment: challenges and
resilience-shaping.
Hannah Abdullah / Research Fellow with the Global Cities Programme at CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for
International Affairs)
Andrew Tucker / Deputy Director of the African Centre for Cities
Alfonso Vergara / Founder & Honorary President of the Metropoli Foundation of Madrid
Patricio Zambrano Barragán / Housing and Urban Development Specialist at the Inter-American
Development Bank
Moderator:
Pablo Ava / CARI’s Counselor

13.35.00h - 13.50.00h Closing Remarks
Juan Battaleme / CARI’s Academic Secretary
Ana Rold / Founder and Publisher of Diplomatic Courier
Francisco Resnicoff / Undersecretary of International Relations of the City of Buenos Aires