Enrique Millán-Mejía is a senior fellow for economic development at the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center (AALAC). In this role, he leads the center’s work on economic security in the Western Hemisphere, the US-Dominican Republic Economic Advisory Group, health economics, and multilateral economic development organizations, with an emphasis on Latin America.

Originally from Colombia, Millán-Mejía has more than twenty years of experience in international trade, government affairs, business development, and project management. Millán-Mejía previously served as senior trade and investment representative for Colombia’s Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Tourism to the United States at the Colombian Embassy in Washington, D.C. In this role, he was responsible for implementing the US–Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement and helped secure sanitary and phytosanitary market access for Colombian agricultural goods. He also led efforts to increase US foreign direct investment in Colombia, expand non-mining Colombian exports to the United States, and liaising with US congressional offices on trade and economic issues related to Colombia. He also engaged with US corporations with existing investments in Latin America.

Millán-Mejía joined the Atlantic Council in 2022 as a consultant for AALAC, where he helped manage Colombia Program projects, including the Justice Fair Play Initiative. He also advised the US–Colombia Advisory Group on trade and investment issues. Additionally, he worked on the center’s partnership with the UN Women Multi-Country Office in the Caribbean, which focuses on addressing the root causes of gender-based violence and promoting women’s economic empowerment in Guyana and Jamaica.

Millán-Mejía is fluent in Spanish and English. He holds a BA in business administration (management and economics) from Universidad Católica de Pereira in Colombia and an MBA in international business and management from the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship at Nova Southeastern University.