Leda Peralta Quesada

Leda Peralta Quesada

Economic Affairs Officer of the International Trade and Industry Unit

Costa Rica – Mexico

Specialist in public policies, innovation and sustainability. Graduate in Political Science from the University of Costa Rica and Master in Environmental Policies from the University of Wageningen, in the Netherlands. She has worked in non-governmental organizations, in the Costa Rican public sector, and as an international civil servant. Between 2008 and 2013, she served as a ministerial adviser at the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Policy, and at the Ministry of Science and Technology of Costa Rica, addressing issues of digital government, the knowledge society, and modernization of the State. 

Between 2014 and 2017, he worked as Environmental Affairs Officer at the ECLAC Subregional Headquarters in Trinidad and Tobago, with special attention to climate change processes and disasters, their effects on development in the region, and opportunities for building resilience. in social, productive and environmental systems. Since 2017, it has been at the Subregional Headquarters for Mexico, addressing issues of innovation and productive chain, with special emphasis on MSMEs, and transition towards intensive economies in the use of knowledge and technology, under criteria of resilience and environmental sustainability.

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