Mr. Cristián Rodríguez-Chiffelle

Cristián Rodríguez-Chiffelle is Partner and Director on Trade, Investment and Geopolitics in Boston Consulting’s Group Global Advantage practice - based out of Geneva, Switzerland.   At BCG , Cristian is a senior leader at the Firm’s Center for Geopolitics and works supporting private and public sector clients on trade and FDI worldwide, also frequently speaking at global Forums. Cristián joined BCG from Harvard University – from where he holds prior Law and Public Administration degrees – where he was a resident visiting scholar and Luksic Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Beforehand, he served as CEO/Executive Director of InvestChile (the nation’s foreign investment promotion agency) and held positions as head of international trade and investment policy at the World Economic Forum (Geneva/Davos), senior international consultant at the inter-American Development Bank , and as trade and environment, and investment lead negotiator at the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile . As a trade diplomat , he negotiated Chile’s investment and free trade agreements, and served as Chile’s delegate to WTO, OECD, APEC, UNCTAD, ICAO and the UNFCCC.   Cristián also currently serves on several boards including at the Chilean Economic Development Agency (CORFO), Start-Up Chile and Chapter Zero Chile (the Climate Governance Initiative), and as Vice-Chair of the Investment Committee of Business at the OECD (BIAC) , representing BCG and the U.S. Council for International Business. He is also member of the Friends of Multilateralism Group - Geneva (FMG). He recently published (E. Elgar, London, 2025) “The Elgar Companion to the World Trade Organization,” a major 70+ author’ co-edited volume devoting 50 chapters to trade and investment facilitation, trade and environment, digitalization and geopolitical tensions.