For the past three years, he has been a key member of the Government of Guatemala where he heads the National Competitiveness Initiative and the Investment Promotion Agency of Guatemala, as well as represents the government as Presidential Commissioner for the Puebla-Panama Initiative.  An entrepreneur in his own right, he owns and led a pharmaceutical company in Guatemala, taking it from a small local operation to a competitive regional operation. Previously he had worked in his family’s business and in the financial sector of Guatemala.  Mr. Seidner holds a degree of Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where he was nominated as “Littauer Fellow” for achieving academic excellence while also giving himself to the community, an MBA “Summa Cum Laude” from INCAE in Costa Rica, and a Bachelor’s Degree “Magna Cum Laude” from Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala. He has served as Director of El Periodico, an import art daily newspaper in Guatemala and has held his own opinion column in this journal. He is also Vice President of the INCAE National Board for Guatemala and Honorary Consul of New Zealand in Guatemala.