Ernesto Cuellar is an Expert Partner at Civitta, specialising in competitiveness, industry clusters, regional strategy and economic development. Before joining Civitta, he was President of the Porter Development Initiative (PDI), where he worked with governments, regions and organisations across the Americas and Asia. For two decades, Ernesto collaborated with Michael Porter’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard, shaping regional economic strategies in Colombia, Peru, Guyana, Haiti, Mongolia and the Netherlands. He holds a degree in Management, has pursued graduate studies in Finance, and earned a Master’s in Design. He is also an alumnus of Harvard Business School’s General Management Program.