telephone (202)
559-9047
facsimile (202) 559-9150
He
has worked for the private and the public sector through his own consulting firm, where he has helped companies and trade industry
associations conceive and materialize international market development and foreign investment projects. For sixteen years Mr. Escandón was the Foreign Trade Advisor to the Mexican Sugar and Alcohol Chamber, where he developed the negotiating strategy for the
Mexican sugar industry for the Free Trade Agreements with the U.S.A., Canada, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa
Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Israel, the European Union and Japan. He was also responsible for the defense of
the Mexican sugar industry against imports of High Fructose Corn Syrup, and a participant as advisor to the Mexican negotiating team
responsible for resolving the NAFTA sweetener trade dispute with the U.S.A.
Mr. Escandón was educated in Mexico, the U.S.A. and Switzerland. He received his professional degree in Economics from the
He is currently the Director of the Center for International Agribusiness at the Universidad Anáhuac.
Contact Julio Escandon
Washington, D.C.
Mark J. Robertson
Buenos Aires
Juan Manuel Lopez
Bucharest
William Conover
Lima
Leonardo Toiberman