Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz

Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz serves as a Senior Advisor at Enlighten Advisory since June 2024 and is the Founder and Fellow at Caeruleum | Globe & Sustainability, along with holding the position of Senior Trade Policy Advisor at Trade Data Monitor LLC. Additionally, Meléndez-Ortiz has been a Founding Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law and a Senior Strategic Advisor at Editora Latin Trade since 2019. Other roles include a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Center for China and Globalization and a Strategic Adviser to the Board at SPACES. Previously, Meléndez-Ortiz co-founded the ICTSD International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, serving as Executive Director from 1996 to 2018. Academically, Meléndez-Ortiz holds a degree in Social Sciences and Economics from Harvard University and has completed various leadership programs at the University of Oxford.