Alex has a broad range of sustainable tourism development and capacity building consulting experience, both in the U.S. and overseas. He specializes in collaborative strategy development that integrates strong economic analysis with effective public-private partnerships that enhance the economic competitiveness of tourism clusters in lasting and measurable ways. He facilitates stakeholder meetings to mobilize leadership and broker compromise in addressing long-standing economic constraints and to reorient public sector service offerings to meet the needs of the private sector. He also specializes in SME business advisory services aimed at upgrading tourism value chains and improving SMEs’ access to new export markets.

Over the last several years Alex has worked on tourism development projects in: Turkey’s Southeastern Anatolia region; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Chile; Argentina; Guyana; Peru; Bolivia; Costa Rica; Guatemala; and Belize. These projects typically focus on the sustainability and competitiveness of emerging tourism clusters, but he has also been engaged as a consultant on non-tourism projects including a trade expansion project in Ethiopia, and a public-private collaborative effort to shape a long-term economic strategy for Oakland, California. He acquired his knowledge of international business competitiveness through five years of progressive and diversified sales and marketing experience, including two years with a U.S.-based outbound travel firm focused on Latin America. He earned his Masters degree from the University of California San Diego’s Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Colorado, Boulder. In addition to his native English, he speaks Spanish fluently.