Echandi Roberto
World Trade Institute, University of Bern
roberto.echandi(at)wti.org
+41 31 631 54 90
- Legal and Political Economy Dimensions of Investment Issues
- Dispute Settlement
- Trade in Services and Regional Economic Integration in the Americas
Roberto Echandi is Director of the Programme on International Investment and member of the Faculty at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern, and member of the Faculty at the Master’s Programme on International Economic Law and Policy at the University of Barcelona.
He has been Ambassador of Costa Rica to the Kingdom of Belgium, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the European Union, and Chief Negotiator for Costa Rica for the Association Agreement between Central America and the European Union. For more than a decade he acted as Chief Negotiator for Costa Rica in numerous international negotiations on investment, trade in services and dispute settlement, among other trade-related subjects.
He received his LL.M. and undertook his doctoral studies in International Trade Law from the University of Michigan School of Law. He also holds his M.Phil. in Latin American studies from the University of Oxford and an Law degree from the University of Costa Rica. He has also served as Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, Director-General for International Trade at the Ministry of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica, Special Adjunct Ambassador for U.S. Trade Affairs, and legal advisor to the Appellate Body Secretariat of the WTO.
Mr. Echandi has published several books and articles examining investment issues, dispute settlement, trade in services and the evolution of regional economic integration in the Americas.
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CV Roberto Echandi, PDF Selected publications Roberto Echandi 2010, PDF Recent publications International Investment Initiative
