Ricardo JSanchez

Ricardo J Sanchez is an economist, PhD in Economics (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina), BA in Economics at the Universidad del Salvador, Argentina, and postgraduate with a MSc in Economics and Administration of Public Utilities at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, Spain / University of Paris X, France. Ricardo is an internationally recognised expert in shipping and port economics, as well as in transport and infrastructure, with special focus on the region of Latin America and the Caribbean. He has worked either professionally or academically in 30 out of the 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean along 30 years, as well as in Europe and Asia. Currently he is Head of the Caribbean Research Institute and co-chair to the Kühne Professorial Chair in Logistics at the School of Management, Universidad de los Andes at Bogotá, Colombia. He is advisor, for logistics and maritime issues, to the Association of Caribbean States. For more than 20 years, he was a Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean, Division of Trade, Integration and Infrastructure. Main duties: to lead a high-level professional team to conduct research and to provide technical assistance and training to governments and public and private organisations, on the matters of infrastructure, maritime, ports and logistics affairs. His main research interests are shipping and port economics, including industrial organization applied to shipping markets, port devolution and the maritime cycle. He holds more than 215 publications among books, chapters in books, peer reviewed articles, working papers, etc., in Spanish, English and Portuguese.