For 14 years Alberto Padilla has been the financial and business news anchor for CNN en Español, and runs the “Economía y Finanzas” newscast, the only daily TV financial news show in Spanish of international reach.

Padilla has regularly interviewed the most influential business leaders, as Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Larry Ellison, Donald Trump; and the presidents and CEO’s of many of the Fortune 500 companies such as Hewlett Packard, Cisco Systems among many others, as well as the top business leaders, Presidents and Finance Ministers of virtually all Latin American nations and Spain.

Padilla is a regular guest editorial writer for the most influential publications in Latin America and is a very active speaker in the Region, traveling throughout the Continent and Spain attending invitations from professional groups and conferences, associations, companies and universities. He has been a regular speaker and panel moderator at the most high profile international summits such as the World Economic Forum and APEC, among many others.

Born in Monterrey, Mexico, Padilla earned an International Studies degree from the Universidad de Monterrey, and has an Advanced Management Program Certificate from INCAE Business School, a top 5 business school in the Hispanic World.