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www.latrasol.com Biography
Ms. Velez de Berliner holds an Honors Master in International Relations and International Security from the University of Pittsburgh. She is a Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude graduate of Lake Forest College where she obtained a B.A. in International Relations. In 2002 the Governor of Pennsylvania named her one of Pennsylvania's Best 50 Women in Business. She lectures nationally and internationally on international security threats in Latin America and on how to do business internationally, profitably and safely. She is interviewed and quoted often on business issues in Latin America, including Brazil and Mexico, especially NAFTA, telecommunications, biometrics, information technology, transportation, energy, agriculture, and international security. She has also written and lectured on the relationships China, the European Union, India, Asia, and Japan have with Latin America. She is a contributor to the Harvard Business Review America Latina, Harvard Business Review Brasil, The Latin America Advisor, Satellite News, Via Satellite, and Corporate Location Magazine in London. Her work on transnational criminal organizations in Brazil was published by Frank Cass Journals in London.

Ms. Velez de Berliner is President of Latin Trade Solutions Inc. (www.latrasol.com) an international business development and international intelligence and security consulting firm, based in Alexandria, Virginia, that works in  Latin America, the European Union, China, Japan, Australia, and South Africa.  Ms. Velez de Berliner serves on the Board of Advisors and as Chair of the Lending Committee of the Hopewell Fund, in Wheeling, West Virginia, and on the Board of Advisors of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania. 

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