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LIVE WEBCAST | UPCOMING EVENTEnterprise Diplomacy: Colombia FTA Case Study
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Jul. 16, 2024
11:00am – 12:00pm ET
6th Floor Flom Auditorium, Woodrow Wilson Center and Online
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Enterprise Diplomacy seeks to leverage innovation, private enterprise, and economic collaboration to advance American leadership and achieve diplomatic objectives. The growth of international trade has been one of the most important economic developments in modern times. It has improved the standard of living for countless people, brought products within reach of everyday consumers, and in many developing countries, has helped to lift more than one billion people out of extreme poverty.
The Joseph B. Gildenhorn Fellowship for Enterprise Diplomacy seeks to address these issues. Enterprise Diplomacy and trade has helped bring stability, security, and strengthen economic opportunities. One important case study to analyze is the US–Colombia Free Trade Agreement, which was signed on November 22, 2006 and entered into force on May 15, 2012. Thanks to this agreement, US goods and services trade with Colombia totaled an estimated $53.5 billion in 2022 and United States had a services trade surplus of an estimated $1.5 billion with Colombia in 2022.
Join us for a conversation on the importance of Enterprise Diplomacy and the role trade can play to reinvigorate our partnerships within the Western Hemisphere with our Joseph Gildenhorn Fellow former Senator Roy Blunt, former Colombian Foreign Minister Carolina Barco, and Chair of the Wilson Center’s Ivan Duque Center for Prosperity and Freedom, President Iván Duque.


IntroductionEddy Acevedo Eddy Acevedo [[link removed]]
Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the President and CEO

Keynote SpeakerWilliam Brownfield William Brownfield [[link removed]]
Distinguished Fellow;
Career Ambassador serving as US Ambassador to Chile, Venezuela, and Colombia from 2001-2010; former Assistant Secretary of State for Drugs and Law Enforcement

ModeratorAmbassador Mark A. Green Ambassador Mark A. Green [[link removed]]
President & CEO, Wilson Center

PanelistsCarolina Barco Carolina Barco [[link removed]] Roy Blunt Roy Blunt [[link removed]]
Ambassador of Colombia to the United States (2006-2010); Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia (2002-2007) Joseph Gildenhorn Fellow for Enterprise Diplomacy;
Chairman of the Leadership Strategies Advisory Services group at Husch Blackwell Strategies, Former US Senator and Representative from Missouri
Iván Duque Márquez Iván Duque Márquez [[link removed]]
Chair and Distinguished Fellow, Iván Duque Center for Prosperity and Freedom;
President of the Republic of Colombia (2018-2022)


EVENT SPONSORShttps://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/enterprise-diplomacy-colombia-fta-case-study [[link removed]]


EVENT CO-SPONSORSWAHBA INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC COMPETITION [[link removed]] WAHBA INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC COMPETITION


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