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Instructor

Jorge A. Martínez-Gonzalez

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Mr. Martínez is currently Managing Director and Founder (1998) of RISK Counseling Associates, a consulting firm in risk management, financial strategy, economic studies and applied research for the latin market, based in Monterrey Mexico. He is also President of The Latin Institute of Finance, a research institution and think tank with partnerships with several Latin-American Universities for the training of financial executives in the Latin world. In 2007, RISK completed a partnership with MG Capital, a firm in the business of Asset Management in México and Latin America, positioned number one in México for Family Office and High Net Worth Wealth Management. Responsibilities inside MG Capital include Risk Management of the Portfolio, Chief Economic Advisor, Planning Director and Investment Strategist.

Mr. Martínez was Chief Risk Officer and Head of Economic Analysis, Legal and Quality Departments for Banorte-Generali, a subsidiary of Grupo Financiero Banorte with 7 billion USD under management from 2004 to 2007. Previously he was Senior Economist in the group of Global Economic Analysis in CEMEX Corporate Planning from May 2000 to 2004. His functions were the macroeconomic and political analysis of countries in the Latin-American region and Northern Africa-Middle East Region and he was head of the Business Risk Management initiative in the Balanced Score Card corporate tool. He was the liaison between Corporate Planning and the Finance Department for the development of models directed at measuring and managing earnings at risk for the company.

Previous to his appointment at Cemex, Mr. Martínez held tenure for 8 years as an Associate Professor of Economics and Finance both at the Economics Faculty in undergraduate level and the Business School of Monterrey Tech, EGADE where he still teaches International Macroeconomics, Financial Engineering, Financial Strategy, and Derivatives. He is also Honorary Faculty Member at the Texas Institute for Latin American Research in Finance, UT Austin. He has a monthly column with topics about risk and global economics in El Norte, the leading newspaper in México.

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• Investing in Emerging Markets