Kuriyama briefed National Press Foundation fellows in July 2022: Supply Chain Issues: Is Friendshoring the Solution? and in July 2023: APEC Trade Not Immune from External Forces. 

Carlos Kuriyama is the Director of the Policy Support Unit at the APEC Secretariat, with experience working mainly on topics concerning trade and investment liberalization, regulatory and structural reforms. Previously, Carlos was a government official at Peru’s Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism, where he served as Chief Negotiator of the Peru-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations, General Coordinator of the Peru-Singapore FTA negotiations and Advisor to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade. He also led the design of Peru’s trade negotiations agenda and implemented Peru’s trade strategy with Asia and Oceania countries.

In the academic sector, Carlos was Associate Researcher and Lecturer in Economics at Universidad del Pacifico (Lima, Peru), where he wrote extensively and participated in several research projects on trade, investment and integration issues for several domestic and international institutions. He holds a Master of International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University (New York, U.S.) and a Bachelor’s Degree on Economics from Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru).