12th INTERAMERICAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE

12th INTERAMERICAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE

Speakers
Candice Owley
Co-president PSI Interamerica, PSI/AFT
AFT / PSI USA / Vice-President PSI Interamerica
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UPCN / PSI Southern Cone / Vice-President PSI Interamerica Omar Autón

Abogado de la Facultad de Derecho de la UBA.

Secretario de Profesionales de Seccional Capital Federal y Empleados Públicos Nacionales y del gobierno de la ciudad de Buenos Aires de la UPCN desde 1998 continúa a la fecha.

Miembro titular de la COPAR, Comisión Permanente de Aplicación y Relaciones Laborales.

Director de la Revista “ESCENARIOS” Para un Nuevo Contrato Social– 2001 – continúa a la fecha.

Copresidente de la Región Americana de la Internacional de Servicios Públicos 2012-2017

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APL/ Young Workers Representative/ PSI Executive Board Rodrigo López

Secretario Juventud Asociación del Personal Legislativo (APL) Argentina y Representante Jóvenes Consejo Ejecutivo Mundial ISP.

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Representative of Argentinian affiliates /General Secretary SGBATOS Jose Luis Lingeri

Representative of Argentinian affiliates /Secretario General SGBATOS

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Jocelio Drummond
Regional Secretary for Interamerica, Public Services International - PSI
TUCA President Hassan Yussuff

Re-elected for a second term as President of the Canadian Labour Congress in May 2017. He was first elected to the position in May 2014, becoming the first person of colour to lead Canada’s union movement.

As well as his work in Canada, Hassan is a prominent international activist. In 2016, he was elected for a second term as president of the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas, an organization uniting 56 national organizations representing more than 60 million workers in 23 countries.

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PSI General Secretary Rosa Pavanelli
General Secretary, Public Services International - PSI

Rosa Pavanelli is General Secretary of the global union federation Public Services International (PSI). She was elected at PSI’s World Congress in November 2017.

In March 2016 Rosa was nominated as Commissioner on the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth (UN ComHEEG), representing the trade union movement, health workers and public services on the Commission and making sure that the voice of health workers is heard. Rosa will provide a global overview of the challenges facing public services, public service workers and their unions.

Rosa is Vice-Chair of the Trade Union and Workers Partner Constituent Group for the General Assembly of Partners (GAP) for Habitat III which took place in Quito, Ecuador, in October 2016.

She is a member of the United Nations High-level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters and of the Cornell University International Labour Relations Worker Institute Advisory Council. She is also a board member of the Centre of Economic and Social Rights (CERS).

Rosa also collaborates closely with ICRICT, the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation.

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General Secretary CGT Argentina / President UNI Américas Hector Daer

Hector Daer, General Secretary CGT Argentina / President UNI Américas

Secretario General de la Asociación de trabajadores de la Sanidad Argentina (ATSA). Secretario General de la Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT). Presidente UNI Américas.

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UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Philip Alston
International law scholar, Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, and co-Chair of the law school's Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice. Alston has held a range of senior UN appointments for over two decades, including United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, a position he held from August 2004 to July 2010. In 2014, described as an independent expert, he was appointed to an unpaid role as UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
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National Treasurer of CUPE Charles Fleury
National Treasurer of CUPE (Canadian Union of Public Employees) since 2011.
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Secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO Lorretta Johnson
Secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO. She was elected to the position July 2011.
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Young Workers Committee / PSI Andean Countries Cristián Zuluaga
Miembro de la Junta Directiva Nacional de SINTRAESTATALES Nacional; representante Joven de esta organización a nivel Nacional y ante la ISP en Colombia. Además miembro de la junta directiva de la Federación Sindical Únete. Y en el campo social es Líder Comunal y ambiental del Municipio de La Estrella, Antioquia.
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Trade Union Rights and National Administration Officer Camilo Rubiano
Camilo Rubiano is a lawyer with more than 15 years of experience in the legal arena. Before joining PSI Camilo had worked for the ILO and the ITCILO.
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Director del Proyecto de la Fundación Friedrich Ebert (FES) en Uruguay Alvaro Padrón
Director del Proyecto de la Fundación Friedrich Ebert (FES) en Uruguay, secretario general del Instituto del Tercer Mundo (ITEM) e integrante de la Fundación Líber Seregni y del Instituto Lula. Fue investigador del Instituto de Ciencia Política y profesor en la Maestría del Centro Latinoamericano de Economía Humana (Claeh). Fue dirigente sindical, integrante del Secretariado Ejecutivo del PIT-CNT (1986-1992) y secretario técnico de la Coordinadora de Centrales Sindicales del Cono Sur (CCSCS).
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SNTSG Guatemala / PSI Central America Luiz Alpirez Guzmán

Secretario General del Sindicato Nacional de Salud de los Trabajadores de Guatemala (SNTSG)

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Presidente de la Confederación Nacional de los Trabajadores en la Seguridad Social de la CUT, Brasil Sandro Alex de Oliveira Cezar

Graduado en derecho de UFRJ con especialización en Derecho Constitucional. Presidente de la Confederación Nacional de los Trabajadores en la Seguridad Social de la CUT, en su segundo mandato que empezó en el 2016; y es Secretario General del Sintsaúde RJ - Sindicato de los Trabajadores en Combate a las Endemias y Salud preventiva de la Provincia de Rio de Janeiro.

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Ana María Lizarraga
Magister en Gestión Pública, licenciada en administración y bachiller en ciencias administrativas. Diplomado especializado: curso de aduanas y administración pública tributaria. Responsable Política de los países andinos – ISP; Miembro titular del Comité Mundial de Mujeres ISP; Miembro del Consejo Nacional – FENTATSUNAT; y Secretaria General del SUTTSUNAT.
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General Secretary of the European Federation of Public Services Trade Unions (EPSU) Jan Willem Goudriaan

In May 2014, Jan Willem Goudriaan was elected as the new General Secretary of the European Federation of Public Services Trade Unions (EPSU) at the 9th EPSU Congress. He was re-elected at the 10th EPSU Congress Dublin in June 2019. He started in the Dutch public services trade union AbvaKabo-FNV in 1989. In November 1992 he started to work with EPSU. He was EPSU's Deputy General Secretary from 1997 to 2014.

He pioneered the social dialogue with the employers in the electricity, gas as well as local government sector. Together with the trade union delegations he negotiated European Works Council agreements and transnational company agreements including with Europe's leading energy and water companies including a groundbreaking deal on improving equality and equal pay in GdfSuez. He actively promoted the social dimension of the Energy Community for South East Europe and has been an active campaigner against the privatisation of water companies in the EU amongst others.

He proposed and is vice-President of the first ever successful European Citizens' Initiative on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation which collected 1.9 million signatures.

He is a member of the ETUC Executive Committee as well as the Executive Board of Public Services International, the global trade union federation of public services unions.

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Assistant General Secretary / PSI Daniel Bertossa

Daniel Bertossa is Assistant General Secretary at PSI where he manages policy, advocacy and governance. He leads PSI's economic policy work in trade, tax, debt and the future of quality public services.

Danny has worked as an organiser and national officer for unions in Australia and the UK covering local government and municipal workers, health and social services, education and private sector service workers, where he leads multiple campaigns for better pay and job security, and against outsourcing and precarious work.

He was previously Director of Policy and Strategy at the Department of Premier and Cabinet in the Government of South Australia. Prior to that he was Ministerial Advisor for Public Sector Management, Local Government and Planning, Aboriginal Affairs and Family and Community Services.

Danny is currently the co-chair of the steering committee of the Independent Commission on Reform of International Corporate Tax (ICRICT), member of the Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI) tax Technical Committee, member of the Centre for Research on Employment and Work (CREW) advisory board at the University of Greenwich and member of the committee of the Centre for International Corporate Tax and Research (CICTAR).

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Investigadora en Transnational Institute (TNI) y CONICET – Argentina Luciana Ghiotto

Experta en comercio e inversiones. Investigadora en Transnational Institute (TNI) y CONICET – Argentina. Profesora de Economia Politica Internacional en UNSAM. Miembro de Attac Argentina y coordinadora de la Plataforma América Latina Mejor sin TLC

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Directora de Programas Internacionales en CEPR y coordina a nivel global la red OWINFS. Deborah James

Directora de Programas Internacionales en Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) y coordina a nivel global la red Our World Is Not for Sale (OWINFS) network.

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Bárbara Rojas
Licenciada en Ciencias de la Administración Pública de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Dirigente Sindical desde el año 2009 en la Base del Hospital de La Serena, Región de Coquimbo, Chile. Dirigente Nacional desde el año 2015, siendo Coordinadora Zonal de las Regiones de Atacama y Coquimbo, para luego, ser Coordinadora Nacional y Hoy Secretaría Nacional de la Confederación Fenpruss. Referente Nacional en los temas de Tratados de Libre Comercio, TPP, y TISA.
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APUBA/FATUN Marcelo Di Stefano

Abogado formado en la Universidad de Buenos Aires; Magister en Formación Sociolaboral Univ de Alcalá de Henares, España; Magister en Derecho del Trabajo Univ de Tres de Febrero, Argentina; Doctor en Derecho del Trabajo Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala. Profesor De Derecho del Trabajo, Derechos Humanos y Principios Constitucionales, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Secretario Ejecutivo de CONTUA; Vicepte de la Red Mundial de Trabajadores del Soporte de la Educación de la ISP; Secretario Adjunto de la Federación Argentina de los Trabajadores de las Univ Nacionales FATUN; Secretario de Relaciones Internacionales de la Asociación del Personal de la Univ de Buenos Aires APUBA; Miembro del Comité Ejecutivo Regional Americano de la ISP, representación Cono Sur

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Economista, investigadora y docente Sofia Scasserra

Economista, investigadora y docente en el Instituto del Mundo del Trabajo Julio Godio de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Untref). Se desempeña como asesora en temas económicos y de comercio internacional en la Federación Argentina de Empleados de Comercio y Servicios (FAECYS) y UNI Américas.

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Pedagoga, directora de educación - SINTRASEB. Coordinadora del Comité de Jóvenes de ISP Brasil. Geici Maiara Brig

Pedagoga, directora de educación - Sindicato Único dos Trabalhadores no Serviços Público Municipal de Blumenau (SINTRASEB). Coordinadora del Comité de Jóvenes de ISP Brasil.

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Economista independiente, membro del ICRICT Ricardo Martner

Doctor en Macroeconomía, Universidad de Paris. Hoy en día es un economista independiente, membro del ICRICT (Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation). Trabajó por 30 años en el sistema ONU, donde fue coordinador del Área Fiscal, División de Desarrollo Económico - CEPAL

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Jorge Coronado
Especialista, investigador y parte del consejo de la Red Latinoamericana por Justicia Económica y Social (LATINDADD) y coordinador de la Red de Justicia Fiscal América Latina y el Caribe (RJFALC). Formado en Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad de Costa Rica, con especialidad en Economía Política de la Escuela de Estudios Superiores de Berlín/Alemania.
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Steve Demarest
President of SEIU Local 503, Oregon. Administrative Law Judge.
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Senior Policy & Advocacy Officer en Eurodad Iolanda Fresnilo

Senior Policy & Advocacy Officer en Eurodad (red europea de deuda y desarrollo), focalizada en investigación sobre deuda pública y finanzas al desarrollo. Licenciada en Sociologia y máster en Desarrollo y Cooperación por la Universidad de Barcelona. Trabajó durante 10 años en el Observatorio de la Deuda en la Globalización. Ha participado activamente en movimientos sociales locales e internacionales en ámbitos como la lucha contra la deuda, auditorias ciudadanas, economía feminista, dinamización comunitaria, participación ciudadana o derechos humanos.

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Economista y consultor. Gonzalo Guilardes

Economista y consultor. Columnista en un diario economico argentino, El Cronista.

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Presidente, Sindicato Puertorriqueño de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras (SPT). Roberto Pagán

Presidente, Sindicato Puertorriqueño de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras (SPT). Preside la Comisión Ciudadana de Auditoría de la Deuda. Es fundador y co-portavoz del Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana, una nueva formación política en el país.

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Presidente NASVG Cindy Pierre Charles

Presidente más joven de la historia de Nurses Association of St, Vincent and the Grenadines (NASVG)

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PSI Deputy General Secretary David Boys

David Boys, PSI Deputy General Secretary coordinates PSI’s work on privatisation, climate and emergency workers and water, waste and energy utilities. David joined the PSI team in 1999.

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International Secretary VISION Sweden. Magnus Andersson

International Secretary VISION Sweden.

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General secretary of JALGO Helene Davis-Whyte

Bachelor of Science degree in human resource management from the University College of the Caribbean (UCC). General secretary of the Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers (JALGO), and vice-president of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions.

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Secretario de Juventud de la ANEP. Benjamin Sevilla

Abogado en Derechos Humanos, Mediación y Resolución de Conflictos. Secretario de Juventud de la Asociación Nacional de Empleados Públicos y Privados ANEP.

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President/ CLATE –Confederation of Latin Americanand CaribbeanState Workers Julio Durval Fuentes

Actualmente es Secretario General Adjunto del Consejo Directivo Nacional de la Asociación Trabajadores del Estado (ATE). Y presidente de la Confederación Latinoamericana de Trabajadores Estatales (CLATE)

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