Antoni Estevadeordal is Principal Advisor of the Integration and Regional Programs Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB, Washington, DC). He has expertise in trade, economic integration and cooperation policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Europe. He coordinates IDB's technical assistance and the research program on trade and integration issues as well as several joint IDB's initiatives with the World Trade Organization (WTO), Asian Development Bank (ADB), European Union (EU), Organization foe Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and UN agencies.

Before joining the IDB he taught at the University of Barcelona and Harvard University. He has contributed as author in several books and published widely in major journals, most recently in American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of International Economics, Journal of Economic Integration, Journal of World Trade, and Economia. He has edited several books, most recently 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). He has participated as coordinator in several IDB reports such as Beyond Borders: The New Regionalism in the Americas (IDB, IPES 2002) and The Emergence of China: Opportunities and Challenges for Latin America (IDB-Harvard University Press, 2006). He holds a PhD and MA in Economics from Harvard University and a BA in Economics from the University of Barcelona.