Enrique Millán-Mejía

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, trade and investment in the Western Hemisphere, including the US-Dominican Republic Economic Advisory Group and the US-Mexico Economic Security Task Force. He also leads AALAC programming in health economics and partnerships with multilateral economic development organizations, with an emphasis on Latin America.

Originally from Pereira, Colombia, Millán-Mejía has more than twenty-five years of experience in international trade, investment promotion, consulting, government affairs, business development, and project management. Between 2014 and 2021, Millán-Mejía served as the senior trade and investment representative for Colombia’s Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Tourism to the United States at the Colombian Embassy in Washington, DC. 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. During his post, he continuously engaged with US corporations with existing investments in Latin America. Millán-Mejía has held senior leadership roles at Colombia’s National Association of Business (ANDI) and Universidad EAFIT, and was an associate professor of business and economics at Universidad Católica de Pereira and Universidad del Area Andina, and guest professor at the Center of Continuous Education at Universidad EAFIT.

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. He also managed a partnership with the US Department of State to promote the Summit of the Americas.

He provides English- and Spanish-language commentary on US-Colombia trade and investment relations and the US Free Trade agreements with Latin American nations to major media outlets, including the Associated Press, Univision, Bloomberg, Politico, and others.

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.