Nicolas Albertoni is the current Uruguay’s Deputy Foreign Minister. He holds two PhDs: in political science and international relations from the University of Southern California (USC) -where he received the Order of Arethe, the highest honour accorded to graduate students-, and in Business Administration from The Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (UCA).
He is the author of three books about trade policy in Latin America and Uruguay: “Uruguay como solución” (Penguin Press, 2019), “Instrucciones para inventar la rueda” (Penguin Press, 2014) and “Entre el barrio y el mundo ¿Mercosur o el modelo chileno?” (Penguin Press, 2011).
In 2018 he was recognised by the Global Americans Journal as one of the 20 New Generation of Public Intellectuals of Latin America. The same year he received the US National Council on International Trade Development Award for his research on the impact of trade protectionism in Latin America.