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Kevin Casas-Zamora is a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, in Washington DC. In 2006-2007, he was minister of National Planning and Economic Policy and second vice-president of the Republic of Costa Rica. He was selected as Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2007.
