Costa Rican Trade Expert to Speak at Walton College
Alberto Trejos, dean of INCAE Business School in San José and researcher in international trade and development economics, will speak to students, faculty and the public at Donald W. Reynolds Center for Enterprise Development at the University of Arkansas.

His presentation, "U.S. Trade with Latin America: Perspectives from CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement)," is sponsored by the Sam M. Walton College of Business, the Latin American studies program and the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

Trejosm who holds a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania,  will speak on Thursday, March 30.

INCAE is a private, nonprofit, multinational business school, founded in 1964 by the business community and the governments of the Central American nations. Since its inception it has had the technical supervision of the Harvard Business School.

Its master's and executive training programs and research projects are aimed at educating individuals, from worldwide perspective, to be capable of successfully holding top management positions in Latin America.

Trejos, as the minister of foreign trade for Costa Rica, Trejos led the negotiation of CAFTA and the CARICOM (Caribbean Community and Common Market)-Costa Rica Free Trade Agreement.