Juan Navarro is a researcher, educator, and entrepreneur with over 20 years of combined experience in business, finance, economics, international trade and higher education. Navarro is the Director and Principal Researcher at CMX Partnerships and a Financial Analyst at the Government of British Columbia. As a researcher, his reports on trade and investment issues in the context of Free Trade Agreements have been published by leading universities, research centers and global organizations. As an educator, Navarro has worked as an associate faculty member at business schools for several universities including Royal Roads University (RRU).

As a director of CMX Partnerships, Navarro has conducted high-profile research projects for leading organizations interested to strengthen economic integration in the Asia-Pacific region, served as a speaker in international gatherings in Canada, Mexico, Japan, Australia, The United States and Chile, encouraged the construction of collaborative agreements between Canadian companies and institutions beyond borders and organized trade missions and business conferences. Before moving to Canada, Navarro served for 10 years as an economist at the Mexican Central Bank conducting economic analyses and doing external relations.

Navarro is an active member of the Canadian International Council (CIC), the Forum for International Trade Training (FITT) and the Vancouver Island Economic Alliance (VIEA). He collaborated with the World Bank Institute as a member of the panel of experts assessing high impact entrepreneurial projects in developing countries in 2016 and 2017. He has volunteered as a mentor at Futurpreneur Canada for the past seven years providing business guidance to young Canadian entrepreneurs.

Navarro was selected as one of the top 75 finalists in the RBC Canadian Immigrant Awards for two years in a row (2018 & 2019), which recognizes inspirational immigrants who have made a positive impact in their communities since their arrival to Canada. In 2019, Futurpreneur Canada selected him as one of the top five mentors at this national program due to his contribution advising young entrepreneurs. Navarro is the recipient of the RRU Founders’ Award (2015).

Navarro’s doctoral research aims to contribute to improving the architecture of trade policy and enrich the framework of new generation trade agreements to support supply chain endurance that benefit Canadian SMEs by identifying key chapters, disciplines and clauses and proposing new content in trade deals that should be considered to tackle future supply chain disruptions. Navarro holds two master’s degrees, one in Global Management from RRU (Canada 2015) and another in Finance from Monterrey Tech (Mexico 2001), a Bachelor of Business Administration.  He is certified as an International Trade Professional by FITT.