Chapter Meeting
Global Risk Catalysts: Geopolitics and Transforming Markets
August 25, 2025 3:30 PM | Latin America Chapter | In-Person
Mexico: Join us in examining the challenges and changes impacting risk professionals amid an increasingly volatile, fragmented, and technologically disruptive global landscape. This event will feature a keynote speaker and two separate roundtable discussions to address significant trends currently reshaping risk management across financial, technological, and geopolitical sectors.
Our keynote speaker will share their perspectives on market developments in uncertain contexts.
The first roundtable will examine geopolitics, global fragmentation, and financial risk, specifically:
- Shifts in the global order (e.g., US-China, Russia-West, Middle East)
- Sanctions, supply chains, operational and credit risk impacts
- Scenario analysis: wars, elections, cyber-conflicts, and disruptions
- Incorporation of geopolitics into risk management frameworks
The second roundtable will cover risk and liquidity models amid uncertainty, focusing on:
- AI in liquidity risk management (anomaly detection, predictive analytics, portfolio optimization)
- Model monitoring and governance
- Liquidity challenges in recent crises (SVB, Credit Suisse), and asset vulnerability
- The regulatory role during rapid innovation
This meeting will be hosted in Spanish.
Registration is required as seats are limited. Priority will be given to GARP Individual Members.
Agenda:
- 3:30 – 4:00 pm: Registration
- 4:10 – 4:15 pm: Welcoming remarks
- 4:15 – 5:00 pm: Keynote
- 5:00 – 6:00 pm: First Roundtable Discussion (Abraham Izquierdo, Antonio Sierra, Jacobo Perez, Ludovic Lelegard)
- 6:00 – 7:00 pm: Second Roundtable Discussion (Maritza Lara Aguillón, Mirian Diaz, Ana Paula Montano, Conrado Camacho, Francisco Gonzalez)
- 7:00 – 9:30 pm: Networking reception
Topics: Market, Geopolitical, Financial Markets
Speakers

Antonio Sierra, FRM

Miriam Díaz, FRM

Francisco Gonzalez, FRM
Jacobo Peréz, FRM

Jorge Alegría

Conrado Camacho, FRM

Ana Paula Montaño
Ludovic Lelegard, FRM
Moderators

Abraham Mohamed Izquierdo Garcia, FRM

Maritza Lara Aguillón
Chapter Directors
Andre Costa
Founder Director, Free Enterprise Advisors, Brazil
Luis Cachay Huaman
Corporate Manager, Non-Financial Risk Banco Santander Peru, Peru
Abraham Mohamed Izquierdo Garcia
Managing Director Traded & Treasury Risks, Grupo Financiero Banorte, Mexico
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