Juan Carlos Barahona is an student and a research assistant in the Human Dynamics Group at Media Laboratory at MIT. His research is focused on the role of technology and social structure in promoting entrepreneurial activity and social and economic growth. He was Deputy Director of the Latin American Centre for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development and a consultant for the World Bank on Sustainable Development. He was project leader for customs reform in Central America as part of a joint research-action initiative of Harvard's Centre for International Development, Harvard Business School's Centre of Strategy and Competition, and INCAE*.
He has served public positions as an advisor to the Minister of Education in Costa Rica. He has been consultant and advisor to the governments and companies in several Latin American countries on strategy and information systems design and development. He is author of case studies, papers, books and book chapters in topics of Sustainable Development, Customs Reform and Information Technologies for Development. Prior to INCAE he was founding partner of a software start up and a consulting firm.
PhD (Cand) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MBA from INCAE and Bachelors in Business Administration and a major in Computer Science from UIA.
* INCAE is a private, non-profit, multinational, higher-education organization devoted to teaching and research endeavors in the fields of business and economics aimed at training and instructing, from a worldwide perspective, individuals capable of successfully holding top management positions in Latin America.