Contact: Bill Caldwell, Office of Public Information, Pace University, 212-346-1597, wcaldwell@pace.edu

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Topic: President Bush to host G-20 summit in Washington this Saturday, November 15

Jorge Pinto, an expert on the global economy and a former executive director of the World Bank in Washington, D.C., is professor of finance at Pace University’s Lubin School of Business in New York. Pinto was the chief Mexican negotiator for the Miami Summit Declaration hosted by President Clinton in 1994.

Professor Pinto is available to comment on President Bush’s plans to host a G-20 summit in Washington this Saturday.

“This is a peculiar kind of summit since it is not linked to any of the many that world leaders attend annually (G8, APEC, etc). Having been part of some of these events as chief negotiator for Mexico in charge of preparing an agenda and drafting the final declarations, I am aware of the problems this conference has, mainly the fact that the US President can not commit to any new initiative since he will be leaving his post soon.”

Pinto has served as an executive director of the World Bank in Washington, D.C. and a member of its board representing Mexico, Central America, Spain, and Venezuela; ambassador of Mexico to Sweden in Stockholm; representative for Europe for Mexico's National Bank; consul general of Mexico in New York; undersecretary for International Cooperation at the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Relations; deputy chief of Mission at the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C.; and chief of staff for Mexico's Department of the Interior.

Pinto has appeared on Bloomberg Television, CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight, WABC-TV Eyewitness News, CNN en Español, and Univision. He has been quoted in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Investor’s Business Daily, China Daily, and La Opinión.

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