she worked for the european union, inter-american development bank, united nations development program and german agency for technological cooperation as a consultant and in 2011 she was designated as the representative of the dominican republic in beijing and served in that position until 2018. next to her, we have alex howe, his new york office and a member of the firm, strategic committee. he advises u.s. clients on compliance with chinese loan issues like anti-bribery, anti-monopoly, labor and employment and national security. he also acts as outside general counsel for chinese clients investing in the united states and next to mr. howe, we have another chinese national, so we have a very well-balanced panel to address the topic of latin america and the caribbean in china. chun, who is the specialist, division of standard charters bank. he's based in new york. he's responsible for advising corporates and financial institutions in the americas on the implications of china's financial market developments and the internationalization. he's also responsible for supporting chinese corpo