<h1 style="text-align: center;">Thought 4 Action</h1>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Invites you on Thursday December 18 Time: 12:30-14:00 to A new interactive event</strong></p>

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<h1 style="text-align: center;">MYTHS AND TRUTH</h1>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">WHEN THE DRAMA OF AN ECONOMIC CRISIS
IS NOT JUST GREEK:
LEARNING FROM THOSE WHO
"OVERCAME ADVERSITY – and Managed the Impossible!"</h3>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">THE SUCCESFUL REFORM OF PERU</h2>
Engage in the new <strong>T4A</strong> dialogue on Thursday, the 18th of December, 2014, at 2:15pm with the protagonists of the successful reform of Peru.

A country that transformed itself from complete tragedy to an unprecedented national success story, recovering from deep poverty to the creation of a vibrant middle class, reversing a state of terror and civil unrest to a vibrant, growing peaceful community. With insights from three national reform leaders of economic policy, institutional reform, and the entrepreneurial industry, this series of events (video interviews) clearly illustrates that countries struck by severe financial crisis can indeed rise from the ashes.

Elena Panaritis takes us back in time on the journey of Peru from a defaulted country considered a “Failed State” in 1990, to an economically vibrant one in 2014 with an average growth in the last 10 years of 7.7% og GDP.

The Panel answers key questions such as “Why the reforms took place in the 1990s and not any earlier?” The speakers present the successful path of a country from poverty to growth, while we are able to re-think the necessary ingredients of successful turn-around stories.

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<strong><span style="color: #993300;">PERU 1989: Poverty 60% | GDP -12% | inflation 7,000% per month</span></strong>
<strong><span style="color: #993300;"> PERU 2013:  Poverty 22% | GDP 6% | inflation 2.86% per year</span></strong>

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<strong>SPEAKERS from the left to the right:</strong>
<strong>Roberto Abusada</strong>: Chief economic advisor at the Finance Ministry in Peru between 1993 and 1997
<strong>Jaime Yoshiyama</strong>: former Minister of Privatization; Energy and Mines; Transport, Vice President
today CEO of KURESA SA; MBA and MPA
<strong>Manuel F. Sotomayor</strong>: CEO and Founder of a series of leading industires especially fisheries &amp; construction

<strong>Biographical notes</strong>

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has been Chief economic advisor at the Finance Ministry in Peru between 1993 and 1997. From 1980 to 1983 he was vice-minister for trade vice-minister of finance and board member at the Peruvian Central Bank. In 1994 he co-founded the Peruvian Economics Institute, IPE, were he is now member of the board and its executive committee. He was Head of the Graduate Economics Program at the Catholic University in Lima and has taught economics at Catholic University and Universidad del Pacifico in Peru and Boston University in the US.

He has done extensive consultant work at the World Bank and other international orgalizations. Currently he is and independent Consultant and a and a partner of GlobalSourcePartners for Peru and board member of varioυs corporations and non-profit organizacions. Mr. Roberto Abusada-Salah holds a Ph.D. degree from Cornell University.

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[toggle active="no" title="<strong>Jaime Yoshiyama</strong>"]was born in Peru and studied Industrial Engineering at the National University of Engineering of Lima, Peru. He received a degree from ESAN, the Graduate School of Business of Peru, as well as an MBA from Michigan University and an MBA from Harvard University.

During his career, he served as President of Electrolima, the state-owned electiricty company. He also served as Minister of Transport and Communications, as Minister of Energy and Mining, as Minister of the Presidency and as President of the Privatization Committee. Finally, he was President of the Constituent Congress of Peru for 3 years, as well as Director of private companies.

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is President of Sotomayor S.A, one of the biggest companies in the fishing sector. He is a member of institutions such as: “The G-50”, a renowned group of Latin American businessmen sponsored by the Inter-American Dialogue and the Carnegie Foundation; PREAL (Programa de Promoción de la Reforma Educativa en América Latina y el Caribe); The Peruvian Chapter of CEAL (Latin America Entrepreneurial Council) since 1992. He also was special representative of the President of Peru in the ABAC (APEC Business Advisory Council) from 1999 to 2001.

From 1998 to 1999, he was President of CONFIEP (Confederación Nacional de Instituciones Empresariales Privadas), the national confederation that groups Peruvian business associations. He was also CONFIER’s Second Vice-President for 6 years. He was President of SNP (Sociedad Nacional de Pesquería del Peru) from 1989 to 1990.  He is founder and has been President from 1994 to 1997 of a non-profit organization named Peru 2021. He has also been President of FEO (Fishmeal Exporters Organization) in 1989.  In the same way, he has been President of the Board of  Productos Pesqueros S.A. from 1983 to 2000 and Vice President of SNE (Sociedad Nacional de Exportadores del Perú) in 1990, 1994-1995.

As speaker and panelist, he has represented CONFIEP and Peru 2021 in numerous Conferences and National and International Forums of Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurial Vision, Environment and Globalization.
In 1992 he was elected “Business man of the Year” by the international magazine “America Economía”.
Mr. Sotomayor has graduated in Economics from the Un.

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