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November 12, 2025

GEO-LAC: The Future of U.S. Trade Policy and Its Implications for Latin America and the Caribbean

Event Series: GEO-LAC: Latin America in the New Geoeconomic Order

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With growing geopolitical tensions, shifting alliances, technological disruptions, and rising protectionism, understanding the emerging geoeconomic order is critical for Latin America and the Caribbean. The Georgetown Americas Institute (GAI) is proud to host GEO-LAC: Latin America in the New Geoeconomic Order, a dialogue series exploring the evolving landscape of global trade, investment, supply chains, and economic alliances—placing Latin America at the center of the conversation.

As part of this series, the Georgetown Americas Institute (GAI) is pleased to invite you to a conversation with Everett Eissenstat, senior partner at Squire Patton Boggs, who has held senior leadership roles in the U.S. Congress, the Office of the United States Trade Representative, the White House, and a Fortune 50 company.

At a time when the United States is redefining its trade strategy around economic security, industrial competitiveness, and strategic competition, the international trading landscape is undergoing a profound transformation. In this context, Eissenstat will discuss the future direction of U.S. trade policy and the opportunities and challenges it presents for Latin America and the Caribbean. The conversation will also explore how these shifts intersect with broader global debates—such as the future of the rules-based trading order, the reform and revitalization of the World Trade Organization, the reconfiguration of critical and strategic value chains, and the governance of emerging technologies—as well as the evolving policy responses across the transatlantic and transpacific arenas.

The event will feature an introduction by GAI Director Alejandro Werner and a conversation hosted by Antoni Estevadeordal from the Georgetown Americas Institute’s Latin America in the Global Economy program.

Featuring

Everett Eissenstat is a partner in the public policy practice group at Squire Patton Boggs. Eissenstat is one of the nation’s foremost global trade experts, having served in senior positions in the U.S. Congress, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the White House, and a Fortune 50 company. He helps clients manage and mitigate geopolitical risk, influence international economic policymaking, and develop and execute successful international trade and investment strategies.

Antoni Estevadeordal is a resident fellow at the Georgetown Americas Institute, where he leads the project Latin America in the Global Economy, and senior research fellow at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI). He previously held senior roles at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), including IDB representative in Europe, head of the IDB Migration Initiative, and manager of the Integration and Trade Sector. His expertise spans international development, trade and investment policy, and regional integration. He has published extensively in major journals and authored several books. He served as a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Council on the Future of Logistics, and has also taught at leading universities in Spain, the United States, and China. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Harvard University and a B.A. in economics from the University of Barcelona.