Speaker biographies

Paolo Di Rosa is the president of the Chilean American Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., and a litigation partner at Winston & Stawn’s D.C. office. Mr. Di Rosa’s practice centers on international arbitration matters, including those relating to disputes between investors and states under bilateral investment treaties and other investment instruments, as well as disputes before the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes. Mr. Di Rosa has substantial governmental experience as a result of his service as a senior-level lawyer at the U.S. Department of State, where he headed the Office of the Legal Adviser for Western Hemisphere Affairs. Mr. Di Rosa served as chief negotiator and head of the U.S. delegation in the negotiation of numerous U.S. treaties and international agreements. During his career at the U.S. Department of State, he received a Superior Honor Award as well as a Meritorious Honor Award.

Boris Kozolchyk is the Evo DeConcini professor of law at the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona and president and director of the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade. Prior to his position at the University of Arizona, he was on the faculty or was a visiting professor at a number of law schools, including Southern Methodist University, University of Costa Rica, National University of Chile, National University of Mexico, University of Aix en Provence, France, and Louisiana State University (LSU), where he is also a member of the advisory board to the LSU Hemispheric Trade Program. Dr. Kozolchyk is a former United States delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, and a representative of the United States Council on International Banking to the International Chamber of Commerce Working Group. He is a member of the American Law Institute.

John Murphy is vice president of international affairs for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and executive vice president of the Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America. Mr. Murphy directs policy advocacy activities related to international trade and investment on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In late 2005 he assumed responsibility for the chamber’s advocacy relating to the global trade negotiations called the Doha Development Agenda, as well as a series of crosscutting international policy issues impacting trade and investment. With a long background in trade issues relating to the Western Hemisphere, Murphy and his colleagues directed a successful, multifaceted advocacy campaign to win Congressional passage of the U.S.–Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement in 2005. He played a similar role with regard to the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement in 2003. Prior to joining the chamber in 1999, Murphy oversaw Latin America–related programs at the International Republican Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of democracy around the globe. In 1994–96, he served as assistant director of communications at the Center for International Private Enterprise, a chamber affiliate that promotes market-oriented economic reform around the world. In 1992–93, he was the first Western lecturer in economics at the National University of Economics in Czechoslovakia.

Roger F. Noriega is a visiting fellow at AEI, coordinating the institute’s program on Western Hemisphere issues. Twice appointed by President George W. Bush (and confirmed by the U.S. Senate) and with a ten-year career on Capitol Hill, Mr. Noriega’s breadth of experience offers strategic vision and practical insight on the Americas. As assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, Mr. Noriega managed a 3,000-person team of professionals in Washington, D.C., and fifty diplomatic posts to design and implement political and economic strategies in Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. As U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), Mr. Noriega coordinated complex and sensitive multilateral diplomacy in a thirty-four-member international organization to bolster OAS efforts to promote trade, fight illicit drugs, and defend democracy. Mr. Noriega has held various other positions, including senior policy advisor with the U.S. mission to the OAS; many program management and public affairs positions with the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Department of State; press secretary and foreign policy advisor for U.S. representative Robert Whittaker (R-Kan.); and research assistant for the secretary of state of Kansas.

Rolando Ortega is a member of the diplomatic foreign service of Chile at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and the first secretary for the Washington, D.C. commercial office of ProChile. In 2004 he was posted to the Embassy of Chile in the United States, working in the economic division of the embassy. He works on trade promotion activities as well as in the implementation of the Free Trade Agreement. From 2001 to 2003 he was chief of staff of the Director General of International Economic Affairs (DIRECON) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this position, he was responsible for coordination the work within DIRECON (which includes ProChile operations), as well as with other ministries of the administration, during a period in which Chile reached trade agreements with the United States, the European Union, the European Free Trade Association, and South Korea. He also served with the Embassy of Chile at its posts in London, the United Kingdom, and La Paz, Bolivia, as well as at the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the Brazil desk.

Ambassador Esteban Tomi? is the ambassador and permanent representative of Chile to the Organization of American States (OAS), and president of the Law Center for Free Trade Implementation in Santiago, Chile. Ambassador Tomi? has represented Chile at the OAS for the last six years. From 1992–2000 he served at the Council of the Municipality of Las Condes, Chile. Between 1968 and 1970, Ambassador Tomi? led the Adjunct General Office for Economic Affairs at the Foreign Ministry of Chile. He was exiled from 1973 to 1984.

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