Board Member
Resident Fellow, Georgetown Americas Institute Georgetown University United States of America
Antoni Estevadeordal is a Resident Fellow at the Georgetown Americas Institute (Georgetown University), Nonresident Senior Research Fellow and affiliated Faculty at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain) and Nonresident Research Fellow at the Emerging Markets Institute (Cornell University).
Antoni has held several senior executive positions at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in a career of more than 25 years in Washington D.C. Most recently he was the IDB Representative in Europe, based in Brussels. Previously, he was Head of the IDB Migration Initiative and Manager of the IDB Integration and Trade Department. In these capacities, he oversaw the IDB relationship with all European stakeholders, including relations with the European Institutions (EC, EIB). Under his leadership the IDB mobilized US$ 1 billion for innovative blended-finance projects to respond to the migration crisis in LAC. For more than a decade he was responsible for IDB support to the trade and integration agenda in LAC, managing a lending portfolio on trade policy, trade facilitation, export promotion, investment attraction, logistic corridors, regional integration, and private sector development projects in more than 20 countries. During his IDB career he has coordinated several high-profile research projects, public-private policy dialogues and inter-institutional partnerships (ADB, AfDB, APEC, EC, EIB, IMF, OECD, UN, WB, WCO, WEF, WTO) on trade and integration issues.
He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from Harvard University and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Barcelona. He had teaching appointments at University of Barcelona, University Pompeu Fabra, Harvard University and Schwarzman College (Tsinghua University). He has been a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution and member of the WEF Global Council Agenda on the Future of Logistics.
He has published widely in major journals such as American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of International Economics, Review of World Economics, Journal of Economic Integration, World Economy, International Affairs. He has co-authored and co-edited several books such as 21st Century Cooperation: Regional Public Goods, Global Governance, and Sustainable Development (Routledge); The Sovereign Remedy: Trade Agreements in a Globalizing World (Oxford); Regional Rules in the Global Trading System (Cambridge); Bridging Trade Agreements in the Americas (IDB); The Emergence of China: Opportunities and Challenges for Latin America (Harvard); The Origin of Goods: Rules of Origin in Preferential Trade Agreements (Oxford); Regional Public Goods: From Theory to Practice (IDB-ADB); Integrating the Americas: FTAA and Beyond (Harvard).
He is a member of the Board of the Partnership for Economic Policy.
