MIGUEL SILVA

Director for Latin America, fd gravitas

Miguel Silva is the Director for Latin America for FD, the influential public relations and finance firm. He has more than 20 years of experience in strategic communications. Mr. Silva has advised governments in Colombia, Panama, Nicaragua, Brazil, Bolivia and El Salvador, in addition to several presidential campaigns in Latin America. Among his corporate clients are firms such as Bancolombia, Visa International, BP, Coca-Cola, the Panama Canal Authority, Philip Morris, Polar, El Tiempo and Grupo Santo Domingo,
among others.

Mr. Silva also served as Chief of Staff to the President of Colombia, as well as Chief of Staff to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States. He was President of Grupo de Publicaciones Semana, which publishes the newsmagazine Semana, and founded the panregional magazine Gatopardo. He coordinated Weber Shandwick¹s Latin American network, and in the late 90s managed Shepardson, Stern & Kaminsky¹s international practice. Miguel Silva has a law degree from Universidad de los Andes with latter studies in Literature in Spain.