Arturo Lizarraga
- Director
Arturo Lizarraga has thirty-five years of entrepreneurial leadership and governance experience. He currently serves as a member of the Economic Development Council in the Office of the Prime Minister as the ITC private sector representative. He served in the Economic Development Council in the five-year term (2020-2025) and is currently serving in the second five-year term (2025-2029) of this administration.
He is a current board member of the Social Security Board. He chaired the Governance Technical Committee in the Peoples’ Constitution Commission. His recommendations make up most of reforms submitted to the Prime Minister who will lay the Constitution Commission report at the National Assembly in May 2026. As the President of the Belize Business Bureau, he was a public advocate for national debt reduction, raising the minimum wage and using Lottery proceeds for the development of the National Health Insurance. He played a leadership role in the fight to break the strong hold on high telecom costs collaborating with the unions and social partners (CAPU).
He developed the Belize-Mexico Free Zone project, serving as a director in the initial CFZ Management Agency and as its first CEO in the mid-1990s. He controls majority interest in two designated free zones, one at the international airport and another at the border with Guatemala. His company Bio-Energy Belize explored the feasibility of establishing a renewable energy plant in Belize.
After Saint John’s College he obtained two five-year scholarships, one for International Relations (Universidad de Panama) and another for Industrial Technology (Universidad Technologica). He also obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and did graduate studies in Finance at Loyola University (New Orleans, USA). During the NAFTA negotiations he attended George Town University (International Trade and Investment) which was sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank.
He is currently serving on two Essential Services Tribunals deciding Labour disputes between workers at the Central Bank and National Port of Belize.
