Biography
Antoni Estevadeordal is a Principal Trade Economist with the Integration, Trade and Hemispheric Issues Division within the Integration and Regional Programs Department of the Inter-American Development Bank, in Washington D.C. He has been involved in numerous activities as a researcher and project team leader in the areas of trade, regional integration and cooperation and institutional modernization in Latin America and the Caribbean region. He has coordinated the IADB technical assistance to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) process from 1995 to 1999. Since 1999 is coordinator of studies in Integration, Trade and Hemispheric Issues Division. Prior to joining the IADB, Mr. Estevadeordal taught at the University of Barcelona and Harvard University. His fields of expertise include trade and investment policies and regional integration and cooperation agreements related to Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia-Pacific region, EU, NAFTA, FTAA and GATT/WTO. He has published widely in major journals, contributed as author in several books and edited (with Carolyn Robert) Las Americas sin Barreras (IDB, 2001). Mr. Estevadeordal was born in Barcelona (Spain) and holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from Harvard University and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Barcelona.
Selected publications
Reviews, journals:
- Estevadeordal, Antoni and Alan M. Taylor. "A Century Of Missing Trade?," American Economic Review, 2002, vol. 92
- Estevadeordal, A., J. Goto y R. Sáez. 2001. The New Regionalism in the Americas: The Case of Mercosur. Journal of Economic Integration 16(2). Junio.
- Estevadeordal, A. 2000. Negotiating Preferential Market Access: The Case of NAFTA. Journal of World Trade 34(1). Febrero.
Books:
- Integrating the Americas: FTAA and Beyond (with Dani Rodrik, Alan Taylor and Andres Velasco; Harvard University Press, 2004)
- Regional Public Goods: From Theory to Practice (with B. Frantz and T. R. Nguyen; IDB-ADB, 2005)
- The Origin of Goods: Rules of Origin in Preferential Trade Agreements (with O. Cadot, A. Suwa and T. Verdier; Oxford University Press-CEPR, 2006)
Reports:
- Beyond Borders: The New Regionalism in the Americas (IDB, IPES 2002)
- The Emergence of China: Opportunities and Challenges for Latin America (IDB-Harvard University Press, 2006).
