President and founder of Roberto Artavia International Consulting; President of Viva Trust, the largest productive-philanthropic trust serving Latin America and of Viva Idea Foundation, an organization for knowledge management in strategy, leadership, social responsibility and sustainable development.
He is chairman of the Board of Directors of INCAE Business School; chairs the Board of Directors of Fundación Marviva; the Board of Directors of Mapfre in Costa Rica and the Board of Directors of Fundación Victoria in Nicaragua.
He is the author of several books and academic articles focused on development measurement, sustainable development, regional integration, competitive strategy, corporate governance, social responsibility and agribusiness. He was a columnist for El Financiero for more than 10 years.
D. from Harvard Business School (1992); MBA from INCAE Business School (1982) and Naval Mechanical Engineer from United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point (1980). Married to Marcella Cuadra Miranda for 39 years, he has 3 children and four grandchildren. He resides in Costa Rica.
Roberto Artavia is a Director of Industrias Cerveceras Centroamericanas, S.A. and his company Compañía Cervecera de Nicaragua, as well as Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee of Corporación Castillo Hermanos in Guatemala; he is also a member of the boards of directors of Fundación Saprissa, Fundación Gente, Club de Investigación Tecnológica, and Asociación Horizonte Positivo, among others. He was Director of Copa Airlines, where he also chaired the Audit Committee and was a member of its Governance Committee; and was Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C.; he was also Director and member of the Boards of Directors of Diebold, Inc. in the United States and Masisa, S.A. in Chile, as well as member of their respective Audit and Risk Committees; both companies are listed on the stock exchange of their respective countries.
Former Rector of INCAE Business School, Founding Director of the Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development; and in the past was Vice President of CINDE, Costa Rica's investment promotion agency. He was Founder and Vice President of the Social Progress Imperative, the organization that publishes the Social Progress Index worldwide.
He has served as advisor and consultant to dozens of non-profit organizations including Fundación Acción Joven in Costa Rica; Fundación Paraguaya, FUNDESA in Guatemala, the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Peru; FUSADES in El Salvador; UCCAEP in Costa Rica; the Panama Canal Authority and the Panama Transparency Commission (Panama Papers Commission); FIDE and COHEP in Honduras; Fedepricap at the Central American regional level, and ORREDES in Northwest Argentina, among many others. He was an advisor to the Costa Rican Tourism Institute and the National Chamber of Tourism in the formulation and deployment of Costa Rica's national tourism strategy for more than 20 years; he has advised the Government of Paraguay, especially its Secretariat of Planning and the Ministries of Economy and Commerce, Finance and Labor, Employment and Social Security in the articulation and deployment of the National Development Plan 2030.
He has been a consultant to governments and integration organizations in Central America, Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines, and Thailand) on competitiveness and development issues; and to several Latin American governments on competitive strategy, innovation, tourism, and/or investment attraction.
In the business field he has been a consultant to companies in all nations of the Central American region and several in South America, including CODACA-Grupo Hino, Grupo Pellas in Nicaragua, Grupo Condor in Paraguay, Purdy Motor, Grupo Nación, Alimentos Pro-Salud, Mercado de Valores de Costa Rica, ILG Logistics, America Free Trade Zone, Auto Mercado, Zona Franca del Coyol, Garnier&Garnier, and many others.
