Eduardo Pedrosa is the Executive Director of the APEC Secretariat. His appointment was formally welcomed at the 35th APEC Ministerial Meeting in Lima, Peru on 14 November 2024. Prior to his appointment at APEC, he was the Secretary General of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC), one of the three official observers of APEC.

Eduardo is an expert on regional economic cooperation working on diverse range of issues including trade, finance, digitalization, climate change and structural reform. Over the past 20 years, he has consulted for governments and businesses across the Asia-Pacific.
He was the coordinator of PECC’s State of the Region report which provides an independent assessment of the prospects and risks to regional economic as well as priorities for APEC. Eduardo is a thought leader on economic affairs and has authored and edited numerous publications, including Trade and Connectivity in the Post-COVID-19 World (with Pascal Lamy, World Economic Forum, 2020); Globalization, Inequality and the Rise of Protectionism (Duke University, 2015); Towards an ASEAN Economic Community (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009); and An APEC Trade Agenda (with Charles Morrison, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007).
Eduardo is also a member of the Advisory Board of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report. He has previously worked for the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Philippine government.