Costa Rica | Non-resident Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
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Anabel González is nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She was senior director of the World Bank’s Global Practice on Trade & Competitiveness (2014–18), where she led the Bank’s agenda on trade, investment climate, competitiveness, innovation, and entrepreneurship. She previously served as minister of trade of Costa Rica (2010–14), where she headed the strategy to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, negotiated and implemented six free trade agreements, and contributed to attract over 100 foreign investment projects. She also had a lead role in Costa Rica’s Competitiveness and Innovation Council and was president of the Export Promotion Board. In her more than 15 years of service at the Ministry of Foreign Trade, she held several positions, including ambassador and chief negotiator of the free trade agreement between Central America and the United States (2003–04).
González was an event speaker at the Dialogue.
The Latin America Advisor sat down with Anabel González, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics and former trade minister of Costa Rica, to talk about medical supply chains amid the coronavirus pandemic in relation to Latin American and the Caribbean.
