JER's Global Platform Expands to Latin America

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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.