Manuel Tovar, the Costa Rican Who Is Committed to Relaunching the Multilateral System From the OECD in a “Lazy Moment”

Manuel Tovar Faja (San José, 80) has been walking the corridors of the Organization for Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris for more than a decade, but he never thought that the time would come to preside over a meeting of foreign trade ministers at such a complex time for international relations, looking at how economies respond to a troubled environment and to the Donald Trump factor, while multilateral trade agreements erode and uncer…