Opening session

• Márcio Luiz de Albuquerque Oliveira, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Planning and the Budget of Brazil
• Martín Francos, Deputy Minister of Planning and Public Investment of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Dominican Republic, in his capacity as outgoing Chair of the Regional Council for Planning of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES)
• Silvia Rucks, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations system in Brazil
• Javier Medina Vásquez, Deputy Executive Secretary a.i. of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Officer in Charge of ILPES