Antoni Estevadeordal has held several senior executive positions at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in a career of more than 25 years.

He is a Resident Fellow at the Georgetown Americas Institute (Georgetown University), Adjunct Faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies SAIS and Senior Research Professor and Faculty at IBEI. He is also affiliated with the Emerging Markets Institute (Cornell University). Since 2024 is a Board Member of the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP).

He has expertise in international development, development finance, trade policy and trade facilitation, export promotion and investment attraction, logistic and transportation corridors, competitiveness and private sector development, regional integration and global public goods.

He 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 IDB Representative in Europe (Brussels). Previously, he was Head of the Migration Initiative and Manager of the Integration and Trade Sector. For more than a decade he was responsible for IDB support to the trade and integration agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean, supervising a team of 100 staff and consultants and managing a lending portfolio in more than 20 countries. He coordinated IDB’s technical assistance, research, capacity building, and several public-private policy dialogues and inter-institutional partnerships (ADB, AfDB, APEC, EC, EIB, IMF, OECD, UN, WB, WCO, WEF, WTO).

He had teaching appointments at University of Barcelona, University Pompeu Fabra, Harvard University and Tsinghua University (Schwarzman College). He has published widely in major journals and authored and edited several books. He has been a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution and member of the WEF Global Council Agenda on the Future of Logistics.

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 is a Spanish citizen and US Permanent Resident.