According to Yukiko Omura, the Executive Vice President of the World Bank's critical Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), "The Leadership Forum is the key projects-focused conference in the Americas," and she went on to say that "we make extremely valuable project contacts at the Forum each year -- this is our third straight year of sponsorship, and it is one of the most effective marketing spends of our year!"

Project presentations are made by high-level decision-makes, including at least three ministers. Sectors (with values, and key projects) are the following:

1. Digital Infrastructure $4.2B - Featuring a major tariff clearinghouse project integrating all of the urban mass transit systems in the city of S�o Paulo, Brasil;

2. Electricity Generation $13.7B - Featuring a 535 MW combined cycle power project and 50 MW solar farm in Sonora, Mexico, sponsored by CFE;

3. Highway $2.8 B - Featuring a $1 billion highway concession in Santiago, Chile, and a Costa Rican highway concession presented by the minister of public works;

4. New Infrastructure $1.0B - Featuring the $500 Million Azua Bio-diesel project in the Dominican Republic, and a series of wind farm projects in Mexico;

5. Oil and Gas $15B+ - Featuring the $5 billion Camperj Petrochemical Complex in Rio de Janeiro, and other strategic projects from Petrobras, Pemex and Petrojam;

6. Ports and Logistics $3.2B - Featuring the Buenaventura port projects, including major highway and inter-modal logistics in Colombia;

7. Strategic $4 B - Featuring the Petrobras-sponsored Cuiba to Paranagua ethanol logistics network, in Brazil;

8. Tourism $5.5 B - Including the $2.5 billion Hatulco Bay Project in Mexico, presented by the Director General of Fonatur;

9. UMT $4.2 B - Featuring the long-awaited bullet train between Rio de Janeiro and S�o Paulo, in preparation for the 2012 World Cup; and

10. Water and Wastewater Treatment $4.3 B - Featuring a series of major wastewater treatment project in the Valley of Mexico

"This the first time that the project roster has exceeded $50 billion," according to Norman F. Anderson, CEO of CG/LA Infrastructure, "we attribute these large numbers to the fact that Latin America, in the fifth year of a commodities-lead expansion, is re-gaining tis confidence."

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