Paula Bogantes Zamora

Biography

Paula Bogantes Zamora is Costa Rica’s Minister of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT). She was named to the post in February 2023 under President Rodrigo Chaves Robles and continued as minister in the cabinet of President Laura Fernández, which took office in May 2026.

She previously served as Vice Minister of Foreign Trade and president of the National Council for Trade Facilitation (CONAFAC). She was a sector manager at CINDE for digital technologies and for advanced manufacturing and clean technologies, and worked as a consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank on competitiveness, innovation and technology policy, contributing to a proposal for a national Innovation Agency and a Public Innovation Laboratory. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Universidad Internacional de las Américas and a master’s degree in international trade and markets from LEAD University, with further studies at Georgetown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.