Georgetown Americas Institute

Alberto Trejos was Costa Rica’s minister of foreign trade, a position from which he led the negotiation of CAFTA. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and has been a faculty member at Northwestern University and INCAE, where he also served as dean and as director of the Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development (CLACDS). He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan, the Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmica de Barcelona, the University of California, and the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States. He was one of the original members of the Financial System Supervision Council and served for almost a decade as president of CINDE.