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Global Opportunity Index 2025: Revisiting Latin America and the Caribbean
The Global Opportunity Index (GOI) 2025 report focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. In recent years, the LAC...
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Global Opportunity Index 2025: Revisiting Latin America and the Caribbean
The Global Opportunity Index (GOI) 2025 report focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. In recent years, the LAC...
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Research and Data Tools
Our international work in the region engages leaders from industry, government, academia, civil society, and more through signature events like our annual Global Conference and curated, local roundtables and meetings. Through our on-the-ground staff and deep partnerships throughout the region, we foster regional and international development and growth.
Global Investors' Symposium Mexico City 2025
22 October 2025
The 2025 Milken Institute Global Investors’ Symposium in Mexico will convene senior executives, policymakers, global investors, and industry leaders at a defining moment for the country and the region.
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Global Investors' Symposium São Paulo 2025
9 – 10 November 2025
The Milken Institute will host the Global Investors’ Symposium in São Paulo—our first large-scale event in Brazil. Timed with the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30), the program’s theme, Connecting Global Markets: Partnerships for Sustainability and Prosperity, will spotlight Brazil’s...
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Mexico's Competitiveness as a Strategic Trade Partner
In early 2023, US imports of goods from Mexico surpassed those from China, making Mexico the main origin of goods imported to the US for the first time in modern trade history. Mexico has long been a key US trade partner, with total US...Read Report
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Milken Institute traz o Global Investors’ Symposium para São Paulo, 9 e 10 de novembro, em paralelo à COP30
BRASIL (São Paulo), OUTUBRO 16 DE 2025—O Milken Institute anunciou hoje que trará para São Paulo, Brasil, a sua principal iniciativa Global Investors’ Symposium, um encontro de liderança e investimentos de classe mundial. Este será o...Read Article -
Milken Institute Brings Global Investors’ Symposium to São Paulo, November 9-10, Alongside COP30
BRAZIL (São Paulo), OCTOBER 16, 2025—The Milken Institute today announced it will bring its flagship Global Investor’s Symposium, a world-class investment and leadership gathering, to São Paulo, Brazil. This marks the Institute’s first...Read Article -
El Global Investors’ Symposium del Milken Institute regresa a la Ciudad de México el 22 de octubre, destacando las ventajas estratégicas de México como centro global de inversión
El Milken Institute anunció hoy que su segundo Global Investors’ Symposium en la Ciudad de México se llevará a cabo el 22 de octubre en el Hotel Four Seasons. Después del éxito de la edición inaugural celebrada en 2024, el evento busca...Read Article -
Milken Institute Global Investors’ Symposium Returns to Mexico City on October 22, Showcasing Mexico’s Strategic Advantages as a Global Investment Hub
MEXICO (MEXICO CITY), OCTOBER 13, 2025—The Milken Institute announced today that the second Global Investors’ Symposium in Mexico City will make its return on October 22, taking place at the Four Seasons Hotel Mexico City.Read Article -
Milken Institute Announces Global Investors’ Symposium in Mexico and Study on the Female Workforce in Latin America, Underscoring Its Strategic Commitment to the Region
The event marks the Institute’s long-term commitment to catalyze investment and drive opportunity across Latin AmericaRead ArticleImage
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Director, Media RelationsChad Clinton is the director of media relations for the Milken Institute. Hired to this role in August 2021, Clinton develops and executes strategies to amplify the Institute’s core messages by generating coverage of its pillar workstreams, experts, and events. -
The Milken Institute 2024 Global Opportunity Index Rankings Reflect Optimism Among Investors, While Financial Conditions Remain Tight Amid Warnings of Interest Rate Hikes and a Global Slowdown
WASHINGTON, DC (March 5, 2024) — Optimism and opportunity, balanced against a world in flux, are influencing global investment decisions, according to a new report by the nonpartisan Milken Institute. The Global Opportunity Index (GOI)...Read Article -
New Report By Milken Institute Calls To Leverage Trade Partnership With Mexico To Unlock Capital, Talent, And Workforce
MEXICO (October 3, 2023) — Following extensive research on Mexico’s economic development, workforce talent, and public governance, and drawing insights from Milken Institute’s Global Opportunity Index (GOI), a new report by the Milken...Read ArticleImage
Yeen Chong
Associate Director, Milken Institute InternationalYeen Chee Chong is an associate director for Milken Institute International. Based in Singapore, he oversees and manages strategic communications with a wide range of global and regional media publications and partners. Chong works closely with colleagues in both Asia and the United States on planning and implementing global public relations and social media campaigns. -
Milken Institute Releases Global Opportunity Index 2023
Washington, DC (February 13, 2023) – The Milken Institute released its Global Opportunity Index (GOI), which explores the economic landscape of countries worldwide to help businesses make investment decisions and governments identify...Read ArticleImage
Chad Clinton
Director, Media RelationsChad Clinton is the director of media relations for the Milken Institute. Hired to this role in August 2021, Clinton develops and executes strategies to amplify the Institute’s core messages by generating coverage of its pillar workstreams, experts, and events.
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Rodrigo Bettini
Managing Director, Latin America, Milken Institute International
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Ana Céspedes Cantú
Director, Latin America, Milken Institute International
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Jessica Contreras
Senior Associate, Milken Institute International
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Laura Deal Lacey
Executive Vice President, Milken Institute International
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Teresa Whang
Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives, Milken Institute International