CHAIR

THOMAS F. MCLARTY "Mack" is Chairman of McClarty Companies and President of Kissinger McLarty Associates, which provides strategic advisory services to U.S. and multinational businesses, and Vice Chairman of Asbury Automotive Group, one of the largest automobile retailers in the United States. Mr. McClarty has a distinguished record of business leadership and public service, including various roles advising presidents Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Jimmy Carter.

As Chief of Staff for President Clinton, Mr. McLarty helped enact the historic 1993 deficit reduction package, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the Family and Medical Leave law. In 1994, he organized the successful Summit of the Americas in Miami, and he played a critical role in structuring the 1995 Mexican peso stabilization program. In 1997, President Clinton appointed him Special Envoy for the Americas.

Mr. McLarty is a frequent public speaker, and he has published numerous articles on U.S. trade and foreign policy. He is Senior Counselor to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Senior International Fellow at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

SPEAKERS

DEMETRIOS G. PAPADEMETRIOU is co-Director and co-Founder of MPI. His work concentrates on the North American borders and migration agenda, immigrant settlement and integration, and migration and management throughout the advanced industrial world. Previously, he was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he directed (1993-1998) and co-directed (1998-2001) the International Migration Policy Program.

Prior to joining the Carnegie Endowment, Dr. Papademetriou was the Director for Immigration Policy and Research at the U.S. Department of Labor and the Chair of the Secretary of Labor's Immigration Policy Task Force. From 1991-1996, he concurrently served as the Chair of the Migration Committee of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He has written over 150 articles, book chapters, and magazine pieces on the subject, as well as more than two dozen books, monographs, and major reports.

HIS EXCELLENCY JUAN JOSE BREMER-MARTINO is Ambassador of Mexico to the United States. Ambassador Bremer has built a distinguished diplomatic career. He has represented Mexico as Ambassador to Spain (1998-2000); to the Federal Republic of Germany (1990-1998); to the former Soviet Union (1988-1990); and to Sweden (1982). He also held high-level positions in Mexico's education and cultural sector, where he was head of the National Fine Arts Institute (1976-1982); Deputy Secretary for Cultural Affairs at the Ministry of Education (1982); and President of the prestigious Cervantino International Festival (1983).

Previously, he was Private Secretary to Mexico's President (1972-1975) and Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of the Presidency (1975-1976). Ambassador Bremer also served in Mexico's Legislative Branch from 1985 to 1988, when he was President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies. In that position, he was co-chair of the Mexican Delegations to the XXVI and XXVII Mexico - United States Interparliamentary Commission meetings held in Colorado Springs, Colorado (1986) and New Orleans, Louisiana (1988).

In 1986, he also participated, along with distinguished personalities from both countries, in the Commission to Study the Future of Mexican - American Relations. The Commission, sponsored by the Ford Foundation, published its report in 1988.

DORIS MEISSNER, former Commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), is a Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute. She contributes to MPI's project on national security and immigration and conducts policy research on international migration and development, and immigration policymaking in an era of globalization. Ms. Meissner served as INS Commissioner from October 1993 to November 2000. In 1989, She founded the Carnegie Endowment's International Migration Policy Program, which evolved into the Migration Policy Institute in 2001. After leaving government in 2000, she returned to the Carnegie Endowment as a Senior Associate in the Global Policy Program.