Doctor Ramon Barquin III
Executive leader · Entrepreneur · Institutional Chairman · International Adviser · Author and Speaker
Enterprise, institutions and the Greater Caribbean
Doctor Ramon Barquin III is a senior executive, serial entrepreneur, civic leader and author with more than three and a half decades of experience spanning the private and public sectors. His work focuses on economic development, business competitiveness, international commerce, institutional governance and the productive relationship among enterprise, education, government and civil society across Puerto Rico, the United States and the Americas.
He currently manages a multinational, multi-industry group of enterprises in the U.S. Caribbean with assets exceeding US$500 million. His executive work encompasses technology, management consulting, education, business services, and institutions at the intersection of economic development and public affairs. This asset figure refers to the enterprises under management; it is not a claim concerning personal net worth.
Former President, Inter-American Commerce Organization (OCTA)
Among his most consequential inter-American engagements, doctor Ramon Barquin III presided over the XXXII International Congress of Retail Trade and Tourism of the Americas in Puerto Rico in October 2025. His international speaking and advocacy record includes a May 2026 address at the UN Palais des Nations in Geneva, participation connected to the OAS General Assembly in Panama, the 41st session of CEPAL in the Dominican Republic, and extensive federal outreach in Washington, D.C.
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Current executive responsibilities include the presidency of Barquin Solutions and BlueTide Puerto Rico, alongside leadership across business organizations, higher education and the Greater Caribbean.
His current appointments include Chairman of Barquin Group Enterprises Corporation and Grupo Barquin; Chairman of Caribe Unido, the Greater Caribbean private-sector trading bloc; Chairman of Atlantic University, American Military Academy and Corporación Educativa Ramón Barquin; Chairman of Instituto de Formación Democrática, the National Student Parent Mock Election and the Recovery Innovation Coordinator & Center of Excellence (RICCE) for the U.S. Caribbean. He is President of Barquin International and Intelligence Media Group, and a Fellow of the Miami Strategic Intelligence Institute. His regional responsibilities also include BlueTide Puerto Rico and the presidency of the OICEX Greater Caribbean Chapter, which represents and coordinates the World Trade Point Federation (WTPF) and Trade Desk initiatives across the Greater Caribbean. He also serves as a director on a regional Catholic Charities board.
He formerly served as President of the United Retailers Association of Puerto Rico (Centro Unido de Detallistas, CUD) from 2024 to September 2026, after earlier service as director and vice president. Established in 1891, the association is the territory’s largest and longest-established business organization. His former chairmanships include the Inter American Commerce Organization, established through the Organization of American States in 1991; the National Association of Latino Chambers of Commerce (NASLCC); the Puerto Rico Institute for Public Policy & Strategic Studies, described in his professional record as Puerto Rico’s first think tank with a history of more than three decades; and SCORE in the U.S. Caribbean. His federal advisory appointments include the SBA's Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Advisory Committee and the Puerto Rico Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
His publishing career includes editorial leadership at Spanish-language editions of Computerworld and PC World; partner, publisher and editor responsibilities for Mercados & Tendencias, IT Now, Construir, LogistiCo, Auto Data and Advertising Age in Spanish; and publisher-editor service at Computers & BusinessWorld. Across those enterprises and other publications he has written extensively on technology, economics, governance and public affairs.
Three earned doctorates and a separate honorary doctorate
Doctor Ramon Barquin III holds three earned doctorates: two in Management and Organizational Leadership, emphasizing information systems and technology, and a third earned Ph.D. in Divinity. His Divinity doctorate is an academic degree, not an honorary distinction. Separately, he has received an honorary doctorate (Ph.D. honoris causa). He also holds an MBA in Global Management from the University of Phoenix and pursued undergraduate studies in politics, economics and Latin American studies at Brandeis University.
He completed extensive law studies at Inter-American University without representing those studies as an awarded J.D., attended the National Security Seminar at the U.S. Army War College, and pursued executive or professional programs at MIT, Stanford, Babson, Columbia, Northwestern, Harvard and other universities. His authorship includes the original blue-cover Caribe Unido book, a separate set of nine economic works under Caribe Unidos, scholarly studies and hundreds of papers, speeches and articles.
A sustained commitment to diplomacy and cooperation
His government and international advisory experience includes counsel to Puerto Rico’s executive branch and public institutions, including work on disaster recovery, federal funding and reconstruction. His résumé records his firm’s selection in 2019 to advise the Governor on CDBG-DR recovery following hurricanes Irma and Maria. Across the Americas, his work has connected governmental leaders, public agencies and international institutional counterparts with businesses, universities and civic organizations on economic development, trade, governance and strategic cooperation.
His international work includes commercial and diplomatic missions, intergovernmental dialogue and engagements with business associations, universities, diplomatic representatives and policymakers across the Caribbean, the Americas and beyond. The Caribe Unido initiative seeks to reduce barriers to the exchange of knowledge, goods, services and culture through cooperation among enterprises, universities and cultural organizations.
He is the grandson of Ambassador and General Ramón M. Barquín, whose career included Cuban military diplomatic representation to the United States, Canada and Mexico, and senior service with the Inter-American Defense Board. This family history complements a career shaped by institutional service, international relations and regional cooperation.
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