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McLEAN, VA-JER Partners, the global real estate investment arm of the JE Robert Cos., has named a high profile advisory board to assist the firm with its Latin American initiative. Leading the cast of global business all stars is José María Aznar, the former Prime Minister of Spain.

Other members include Pedro Aspe, principal of Evercore Partners and the former Secretary of Finance of Mexico; Roberto Dañino, deputy chairman and executive director of Hochschild Mining PLC and the former Prime Minister of Peru; Francisco Gros, president, OGX S.A. and the former Head of Brazil's Central Bank, of the Brazilian Development Bank--BNDES, and of Petrobras; James A. Harmon, chairman of Harmon & Co. LLC and former chairman of the US Export-Import Bank; Moisés Naím, editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy, chairman of the Group of Fifty and former Minister of Trade and Industry of Venezuela; Alvaro Saieh Bendeck, chairman of Copesa and a director of the Santiago Stock Exchange; Alejandro Santo Domingo, managing director of Quadrant Capital Advisors Inc.

"We are excited to have such a distinguished group of people advising on our expansion into Latin America, which we believe offers numerous attractive investment opportunities," Joseph E. Robert Jr., chairman and CEO of JER, says in a statement. "All of the members of our board, with their extraordinary backgrounds and wealth of experience, enhance JER's ability to achieve its objectives in Latin America."