Geopolitics: Risks and Opportunities in 2025

Alexis Milo is currently the founding partner of Telekonomics, a consulting firm on economics, finance, and telecommunications. Before, Alexis was the Chief Economist and Head of Research at HSBC Mexico. Previously, Alexis was Commissioner at the Federal Telecommunications Commission of Mexico, appointed by the President in 2011. Other previous positions in the Mexican Government include Chief Advisor to the President of Mexico, Director of Public Debt Management, and Director of Fiscal Policy, both at the Ministry of Finance. He also worked as a Senior Economist at the Research Department of Bank of Mexico.

Alexis Milo obtained a BA in Economics (summa cum laude) from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and a PhD in Economics from Yale University. As a part-time Professor, he taught courses of Macroeconomics, International Finance, and Economics of Telecommunications at ITAM, CIDE, and Colegio de México.

Abraham educational background comprises the GARP Financial Risk Manager certification, the Moody’s Commercial Credit certificate, a PLD program from Harvard Business School, but also, an MSc in risk, MSc in finance, and the financial management MBA from one of the most prestigious universities in Mexico, better known as ITAM. He is also a Cornell Johnson School of Business & Queens Smith School of Business MBA.

Currently, Abraham is the managing director of trading & treasury risks at Grupo Financiero Banorte, where he has under authority the balance sheet oversight & modelling, including policy compliance hedging strategies & interest rate risk management. In a similar fashion, he is in charge of the liquidity risk framework & the Basel III directive. Abraham M Izquierdo is also responsible for the Grupo Financiero Banorte’s capital management, allocation, optimization & surveillance (including CET1, CAR, Stress Testing & ICAAP). In the trading book sideline, he is the head for market & counterparty risks, including the valuation and implementation of financial products & derivatives, whthin the Banorte’s capital markets transformation program. He has also been in charge of the XVAs framework & Derivatives Committee introduction at Banorte. As of now, two relevant initiatives he is leading at Grupo Financiero Banorte are: the Basel IV & LIBOR/TIIE transition implementation.