Wednesday, October 29, 2025
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. EDT
Location: Healey Family Student Center Social Room
As part of its Ambassador Series, the Georgetown Americas Institute is pleased to welcome His Excellency Alejandro Oxenford, ambassador of Argentina to the United States, for a wide-ranging conversation with Ambassador Andres Duran, former ambassador of Uruguay in the United States, on Argentina’s evolving relationship with Washington at a time of global and regional transformation.
Under the Javier Milei administration, Argentina is pursuing an ambitious agenda of macroeconomic stabilization, market reforms, and international reintegration. With inflation declining and growth resuming, the government seeks to expand trade, attract long-term U.S. investment, and deepen cooperation across strategic sectors—from energy and critical minerals to innovation and finance.
Following President Javier Milei’s October 2025 visit to the White House and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent’s announcement of an expanded U.S.-Argentina currency swap agreement from $20 billion to $40 billion, Ambassador Oxenford will reflect on Argentina’s strategic priorities vis-à-vis the United States, opportunities for collaboration in areas such as energy security, critical minerals, and infrastructure, and the country’s vision for its regional and global role as it repositions within South America and the broader international system. The discussion will also explore how Buenos Aires balances relations with major powers, including the United States and China, and the implications for Latin American integration and the global energy transition.
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Alejandro Oxenford serves as the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Argentine Republic to the United States. A renowned Argentine entrepreneur and philanthropist, he co-founded DeRemate.com, OLX, and letgo, and later established Myelin Venture Capital, investing in early-stage technology ventures. Before entering diplomacy, he served on the boards of Endeavor Argentina, the Torcuato Di Tella University Economic Council, and the Harvard Business School Latin America Advisory Board. Ambassador Oxenford holds a B.A. in business administration from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina and an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School.
Andrés A. Durán is a visiting fellow at the Georgetown Americas Institute. He served as ambassador of Uruguay to the United States from 2020 to 2025, during the government of President Luis Lacalle Pou. He was dean of the Latin America diplomatic corps in Washington, DC, both under the Joe Biden and Donald Trump administrations. During his tenure, Uruguay and the United States deepened their economic partnership through trade and investments and developed a close political relationship that was reflected in new security and education agreements, initiatives to foster innovation and entrepreneurship, bipartisan bills, and fulfillment of all requirements to obtain Visa Waiver Program status (currently in implementation phase), among others. Before becoming an ambassador, he worked in private equity and real estate deals in Latin America, as well as an executive advisor of investment manager Ashmore Group; previously he worked over 20 years as a corporate lawyer in the region, particularly in mergers and acquisitions transactions and foreign direct investment projects, as a partner of law firms based in Uruguay. Ambassador Durán has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an LL.M. in international legal studies from Georgetown Law (as a Fulbright Scholar), and a Juris Doctor from the Catholic University of Uruguay.