The Great Corporate Debate Organizational Committee, sponsors, supporters, and all the participating companies would like to thank the following people for acting as judges during this year's competition:

Juan Carlos Correa, Juan Carlos Délano, Andrew Robshaw, Jaime Bazan, Graham Wigg, Gonzalo Biggs. Michael Combes, Patricia Politzer, Andrés Burlé, Richard Diego, Alex Fernandez, Joelle Uzarski, Liuba Libedinsky, Lucy Young, James Yeomans, and Shaun Sheffield.

Juan Carlos Correa
Mr. Correa studied History at Universidad Catolica between 1969 and 1975. After graduating he became the Executive Director of AFS Programas Interculturales in Chile and afterward served as the International Director for Africa and the Middle East for this same organization from their home office in New York. Upon returning to Chile he became the Manager of the Human Resources department for a British company called Pilkington Glass. Since 2005 he has been the Executive Director for the Instituto Chileno Norteamericano de Cultura.

Juan Carlos Délano
Mr. Délano was 3 times the President of The National Chamber of Commerce in Santiago. He currently is on the board of directors at the Chamber of Commerce as well as the Corporación Cultural de lo Barnecha - COBA.

Andrew Robshaw
Mr. Robshaw he has a degree from Nottingham and two masters from Cranfield and London Universities. From 1989-1999 we was the founder and managing director of a UK & French Company supplying logistics and support services for major tour operators in 10 European countries. He is a Sloan Fellow of London Business School and President of the London Business School Chile Alumni Association. Since 2003 has been the General Manager of the British Chilean Chamber of Commerce.

Jaime Bazan

Mr. Bazan is currently the General Manager of the Chilean American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), a position he has held since 1997. Before taking that position, he had a long career within the Chilean diplomatic service which started in 1975. He is also the President of Fundación María de la Luz Zañartu, a non profit organization who cares for homeless children, a member of the Board of Castillo Hidalgo S.A., and member of the Board of the Chilean American Chamber of Commerce in Wash. D.C.

Graham Wigg
Mr. Wigg was born in Australia in a small city in the North of the State of Queensland. He was educated in a country boarding school and achieved excellent grades. He then moved with his family to Brisbane, the capital of the state, where he studied a degree in management, followed by a journalism career. He has been the Director of magazines and newspapers both in Australia and here in Chile, for many years. Today Mr. Wigg holds the position of Director / General Manager of the Chilean Australian Chamber of Commerce.

Gonzalo Biggs
Mr. Biggs studied law at the Universidad de Chile and George Washington University in the United States. He was legal counsel for the Inter-American development bank in Washington D.C. Today he is a member of the Mediation and Arbitration Centre of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce, member of the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association of New York, and a partner at the law firm Figueroa & Valenzuela. He also is an advisor and active member of COBA.

Michael Combes.
Mr. Combes  is a UK educated Electrical Engineer with an MBA. He arrived in Chile twenty years ago as manager of a Seattle based shipbuilding company, Marco Chilena. Today he is executive Director and the company specializes in the building of very large luxury motor yachts. He has been involved with Amcham for many years and was President in 1994. His main interest has been the Amcham magazine, bUSiness Chile which he ran for 15 years. He was on the Grange School board for 10 years, and has been a board member of SONAPESCA, the Chilean fishing industry confederation for 20 years. More recently he has been actively involved in financing, supervising, and supporting small start up companies in mobile phones, wine, fish, and digital fling.

Patricia Politzer
Mrs. Politzer is a journalist and writer. She is currently the director of the Centro de Estudios Universitarios – CEU at UNIACC University and has also served as the dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences of Communication for this same university. She has held important posts such as the President of the Consejo Nacional de Television between June 2001 and February 2006, Director of communications for the election campaign of Ricardo Lagos starting in 2000, the Director of the Secretaria de Comunicación y Cultura for the Chilean Government, and the director of Prensa de Television Nacional de Chile between 1991 and 1994. Lastly, she is the founder and member of the board of Chile Transparente and advisor to the Corporación ComunidadMujer.

Andrés Burlé
Mr. Burle is a lawyer who studied at the Universidad de Chile and who also has done graduate work in International Commerce. He was given a scholarship by the Instituto Chileno Britanico de Cultura and the English Speaking Union to participate at the International Relations Conference organized by Oxford University. He is a partner at the law firm Eyzaguirre Burle Montes and Ossa and is dedicated to the subject of consulting en corporate material, foreign investment, and topics regarding international commerce such as the application of Free Trade Agreements and mechanism to find solutions to controversies.

Richard Diego
Mr. Diego has a Juris Doctorate from New York Law School and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1974. He also holds a B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University. He was elected President of AmCham’s Board in March 2003, position that he held until March 2005. His major accomplishments include: Executed start-up operations for Prudential in Chile. Supervised acquisitions and the absorption of a Paraguayan brokerage company. Grew Prudential’s private banking business to profitable levels with an executive team of 20 professionals, and private banking assets in excess of US$500 million. Between 1989 to 1994, he served as Managing Director and Country Manager for Continental Bank, a subsidiary of Continental Bank, Chicago, IL, that was acquired by Bank of America in 1994. He is currently the Managing Director of the Royal Bank of Canada.

Alex Fernandez
Mr. Fernandez was born in Cuba but holds Chilean citizenship. He studied Business Administration at Rutgers University in the United States and later went on to receive his MBA from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University in Chicago. He has had a distinguished career in Insurance and has participated in various conferences as an expert in this sector in Latin America. After actively participating in AmCham for many years he was chosen as President of this bi-lateral organization in 1996. He currently serves on the board of directors for Farmacias Ahumada, El Chamisero, Infraestructura 2000, Laboratorios Drag Pharma, Dr. Pet., and COBA.

Joelle Uzarski
Mrs. Uzarski is the Regional English Language Officer (RELO) for Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.  She is based at the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile, where she opened the office in December 2006.  She works with many partners including Ministries of Education, university English pedagogy departments, binational centers, and local TESOL organizations to improve English teaching in the region.  Ms. Uzarski received a Master’s degree in Teaching English as an International Language from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, she worked in Uzbekistan, Korea, Brazil, and Spain training teachers, teaching students, and developing tests and materials.

Liuba Libedinsky
Mrs. Libendinsky studied Pedagogy in English at Universidad de Chile and was a school Teacher for more than 15 years. She later would become Academic Coordinator at UNIACC University and then the Director of the School of Communication and foreign languages at this same University. She has been in charge of implementing and developing different academic projects related to English methodology and has also worked as a teacher evaluator at Instituto Chileno Norteamericano.

Lucy Young
Mrs. Young is a lawyer at the law firm of Grasty, Quintana, Majlis & Cía. Originally from New Zealand she has spent the last 6 years living and working in Chile. She has been the co-organizer of the Chilean National Jessup Competition which is a moot court competition in English between law students in Chile.

James Yeomans
Mr. Yeomans served as the 3rd Secretary at the Australian Embassy in Chile. Besides being a diplomat, he is also a lawyer who has worked in both the private and public sectors. He has ample work experience both in Australia and around the world including a post at the European Parliament in France. His next placement will take him to Mexico City.

Shaun Sheffield
Mr. Sheffield has been working, traveling and studying in Latin America since 1998. He spent 8 years working with Business News Americas,  Latin America's largest regional media and business intelligence agency with offices in  Santiago, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro,  Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Caracas, directing the company's business development and marketing divisions and responsible for new product development, strategic alliances, key client relationships, and overall business strategy. In 2004 he founded The Austral Group in Santiago, Chile which is an educational services firm dedicated to providing international EMBA and MBA programs with organized visits to South America.The Great Corporate Debate Organizational Committee, sponsors, supporters, and all the participating companies would like to thank the following people for acting as judges during this year's competition:

Juan Carlos Correa, Juan Carlos Délano, Andrew Robshaw, Jaime Bazan, Graham Wigg, Gonzalo Biggs. Michael Combes, Patricia Politzer, Andrés Burlé, Richard Diego, Alex Fernandez, Joelle Uzarski, Liuba Libedinsky, Lucy Young, James Yeomans, and Shaun Sheffield.

Juan Carlos Correa
Mr. Correa studied History at Universidad Catolica between 1969 and 1975. After graduating he became the Executive Director of AFS Programas Interculturales in Chile and afterward served as the International Director for Africa and the Middle East for this same organization from their home office in New York. Upon returning to Chile he became the Manager of the Human Resources department for a British company called Pilkington Glass. Since 2005 he has been the Executive Director for the Instituto Chileno Norteamericano de Cultura.

Juan Carlos Délano
Mr. Délano was 3 times the President of The National Chamber of Commerce in Santiago. He currently is on the board of directors at the Chamber of Commerce as well as the Corporación Cultural de lo Barnecha - COBA.

Andrew Robshaw
Mr. Robshaw he has a degree from Nottingham and two masters from Cranfield and London Universities. From 1989-1999 we was the founder and managing director of a UK & French Company supplying logistics and support services for major tour operators in 10 European countries. He is a Sloan Fellow of London Business School and President of the London Business School Chile Alumni Association. Since 2003 has been the General Manager of the British Chilean Chamber of Commerce.

Jaime Bazan

Mr. Bazan is currently the General Manager of the Chilean American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), a position he has held since 1997. Before taking that position, he had a long career within the Chilean diplomatic service which started in 1975. He is also the President of Fundación María de la Luz Zañartu, a non profit organization who cares for homeless children, a member of the Board of Castillo Hidalgo S.A., and member of the Board of the Chilean American Chamber of Commerce in Wash. D.C.

Graham Wigg
Mr. Wigg was born in Australia in a small city in the North of the State of Queensland. He was educated in a country boarding school and achieved excellent grades. He then moved with his family to Brisbane, the capital of the state, where he studied a degree in management, followed by a journalism career. He has been the Director of magazines and newspapers both in Australia and here in Chile, for many years. Today Mr. Wigg holds the position of Director / General Manager of the Chilean Australian Chamber of Commerce.

Gonzalo Biggs
Mr. Biggs studied law at the Universidad de Chile and George Washington University in the United States. He was legal counsel for the Inter-American development bank in Washington D.C. Today he is a member of the Mediation and Arbitration Centre of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce, member of the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association of New York, and a partner at the law firm Figueroa & Valenzuela. He also is an advisor and active member of COBA.

Michael Combes.
Mr. Combes  is a UK educated Electrical Engineer with an MBA. He arrived in Chile twenty years ago as manager of a Seattle based shipbuilding company, Marco Chilena. Today he is executive Director and the company specializes in the building of very large luxury motor yachts. He has been involved with Amcham for many years and was President in 1994. His main interest has been the Amcham magazine, bUSiness Chile which he ran for 15 years. He was on the Grange School board for 10 years, and has been a board member of SONAPESCA, the Chilean fishing industry confederation for 20 years. More recently he has been actively involved in financing, supervising, and supporting small start up companies in mobile phones, wine, fish, and digital fling.

Patricia Politzer
Mrs. Politzer is a journalist and writer. She is currently the director of the Centro de Estudios Universitarios – CEU at UNIACC University and has also served as the dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences of Communication for this same university. She has held important posts such as the President of the Consejo Nacional de Television between June 2001 and February 2006, Director of communications for the election campaign of Ricardo Lagos starting in 2000, the Director of the Secretaria de Comunicación y Cultura for the Chilean Government, and the director of Prensa de Television Nacional de Chile between 1991 and 1994. Lastly, she is the founder and member of the board of Chile Transparente and advisor to the Corporación ComunidadMujer.

Andrés Burlé
Mr. Burle is a lawyer who studied at the Universidad de Chile and who also has done graduate work in International Commerce. He was given a scholarship by the Instituto Chileno Britanico de Cultura and the English Speaking Union to participate at the International Relations Conference organized by Oxford University. He is a partner at the law firm Eyzaguirre Burle Montes and Ossa and is dedicated to the subject of consulting en corporate material, foreign investment, and topics regarding international commerce such as the application of Free Trade Agreements and mechanism to find solutions to controversies.

Richard Diego
Mr. Diego has a Juris Doctorate from New York Law School and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1974. He also holds a B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University. He was elected President of AmCham’s Board in March 2003, position that he held until March 2005. His major accomplishments include: Executed start-up operations for Prudential in Chile. Supervised acquisitions and the absorption of a Paraguayan brokerage company. Grew Prudential’s private banking business to profitable levels with an executive team of 20 professionals, and private banking assets in excess of US$500 million. Between 1989 to 1994, he served as Managing Director and Country Manager for Continental Bank, a subsidiary of Continental Bank, Chicago, IL, that was acquired by Bank of America in 1994. He is currently the Managing Director of the Royal Bank of Canada.

Alex Fernandez
Mr. Fernandez was born in Cuba but holds Chilean citizenship. He studied Business Administration at Rutgers University in the United States and later went on to receive his MBA from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University in Chicago. He has had a distinguished career in Insurance and has participated in various conferences as an expert in this sector in Latin America. After actively participating in AmCham for many years he was chosen as President of this bi-lateral organization in 1996. He currently serves on the board of directors for Farmacias Ahumada, El Chamisero, Infraestructura 2000, Laboratorios Drag Pharma, Dr. Pet., and COBA.

Joelle Uzarski
Mrs. Uzarski is the Regional English Language Officer (RELO) for Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.  She is based at the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile, where she opened the office in December 2006.  She works with many partners including Ministries of Education, university English pedagogy departments, binational centers, and local TESOL organizations to improve English teaching in the region.  Ms. Uzarski received a Master’s degree in Teaching English as an International Language from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, she worked in Uzbekistan, Korea, Brazil, and Spain training teachers, teaching students, and developing tests and materials. 

Liuba Libedinsky
Mrs. Libendinsky studied Pedagogy in English at Universidad de Chile and was a school Teacher for more than 15 years. She later would become Academic Coordinator at UNIACC University and then the Director of the School of Communication and foreign languages at this same University. She has been in charge of implementing and developing different academic projects related to English methodology and has also worked as a teacher evaluator at Instituto Chileno Norteamericano.

Lucy Young
Mrs. Young is a lawyer at the law firm of Grasty, Quintana, Majlis & Cía. Originally from New Zealand she has spent the last 6 years living and working in Chile. She has been the co-organizer of the Chilean National Jessup Competition which is a moot court competition in English between law students in Chile.

James Yeomans
Mr. Yeomans served as the 3rd Secretary at the Australian Embassy in Chile. Besides being a diplomat, he is also a lawyer who has worked in both the private and public sectors. He has ample work experience both in Australia and around the world including a post at the European Parliament in France. His next placement will take him to Mexico City.

Shaun Sheffield
Mr. Sheffield has been working, traveling and studying in Latin America since 1998. He spent 8 years working with Business News Americas,  Latin America's largest regional media and business intelligence agency with offices in  Santiago, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro,  Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Caracas, directing the company's business development and marketing divisions and responsible for new product development, strategic alliances, key client relationships, and overall business strategy. In 2004 he founded The Austral Group in Santiago, Chile which is an educational services firm dedicated to providing international EMBA and MBA programs with organized visits to South America.