JUAN C. ECHEVERRY Founding partner of Econcept, Washington DC and Bogotá, an economic consultancy with over 12 years of experience in macroeconomic analysis, public policy design and evaluation, and microeconomic research in Latin-America. We provide macroeconomic and political analysis to the international financial sector. Former CEO of Ecopetrol, Colombia’s largest Oil and Gas producer, No. 559 in Forbes World’s Biggest Public Companies and among the 30 largest O&G producers worldwide, with $44 billions of Market Cap. as of July 2108, increasing from less than $20 billion two years ago. Former Minister of Finance of Colombia, chosen in 2011 by four international publications as The Best Minister of Finance of the Americas. Former Minister of Economic Planning. Former Dean of Economics at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá); Associate Professor at Instituto de Empresa, Madrid; teaching experience at New York University and Colombian Universities. Former weekly editorialist of CNN en Español (Atlanta). Published papers in different fields of economics, in specialized journals, and three books on the Colombian and Latin American economies. PhD in Economics from New York University. Well stablished reputation as a crisis manager, both at the corporate and macroeconomic levels. Noted Speaker.