Alan Greenspan keynotes PODER Forecast 2007.

Alan Greenspan will be the keynote speaker for the PODER Forecast 2007 to be held Wednesday, November 8, 2006 in Washington, D.C. The former FederalReserve chairman headlines an illustrious group of confirmed speakers for the first
annual event, organized by PODER magazine and hosted by the Inter American Development Bank.

PODER Forecast 2007 is a morning-long, invitation-only event—presented by Grupo Televisa in partnership with Georgetown and Columbia Universities—for high-level business executives, and political and academic leaders.

The event will begin at 8:30am with opening remarks by IDB president Luis AlbertoMoreno. Richard Levin, president of Yale University, will follow with a speech and a question and answer session on the global university.

The event consists of two interactive sessions: the Future of Media and Technology, moderated by Alberto Ibarguen, CEO and president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Session leaders are: Don Browne, president, Telemundo; Ralph de la Vega, COO, Cingular; Dan Rather, HDNet; Jason Pontin, editor-in-chief, Technology Review (M.I.T.); Alfonso de Angoitia, executive vice president, Grupo Televisa; and Enrique Senior, managing director, Allen & Co. Inc.

The second session is entitled The Business Climate in 2007, and will be moderated by the editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine, Moises Naim. Session leaders are: Emilio Azcarraga, chairman, president and CEO, Grupo Televisa; Roel Campos, commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission; Edward J. Mathias, managing director, The Carlyle Group; Alberto J. Verme, managing director and Global Co-Head of Investment Banking, Citigroup; and Jay S. Sidhu, non-executive chairman, Sovereign Bancorp.