Laura Flores is a widely connected international executive with 14 years experience in marketing, public administration, non-profit management, and organizational development and strategy. She is completely bi-cultural, having lived and worked in the U.S. and Panama, and is responsible for CheckOut Panama’s marketing and strategic direction.

Ms. Flores has dedicated many years of her career to promoting Panama. Under a Presidential appointment, she became the first Vice Minister for Foreign Trade and established a cabinet-level organization responsible for investment and export promotion and trade negotiations. She also created and managed the first promotion department at the Interoceanic Region Authority (ARI), the sole government agency responsible for commercializing billions of dollars of reverted U.S. assets along the Panama Canal.

Ms. Flores holds a BA degree from Brown University in Economics and International Relations, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She has visited nearly 40 countries in five continents, is bilingual in Spanish and English and also proficient in French and Italian.

lflores@checkoutpanama.com