Gloria Totoricagüena

Gloria Totoricagüena

Dr. Gloria Totoricagüena (PhD London School of Economics), is a native Idahoan, a Rotary International Graduate Fellow to Uruguay, and a public policy, project management and political consultant living in Boise.  She is a world renowned and awarded Basque diaspora and identity expert. During her academic career at Stanford University and University of Nevada, Reno, she won separate awards for her teaching, her research and her numerous publications. The most comprehensive quantitative database on the Basque diaspora is a result of Totoricagüena’s fieldwork conducted in 43 Basque communities, in six countries. She transferred to the private sector and was selected by the Office of the Presidency of the Basque Government in Spain to design and direct an international think tank on socio-economic policy issues. She has also coordinated two international trade missions between Idaho and the Basque Country. Gloria is the President of two woman-owned small-business consulting firms, Transnational Initiatives, focusing on international politics and trade, and Idaho Policy and Consulting, where she specializes in both public and private sector project design and management related to Idaho.   She is the Idaho Coordinator of the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region’s Idaho Council and its issues groups including cybersecurity resilience, public safety communications, workforce development, water rights, rural healthcare, forest sustainability, advanced manufacturing, regional transportation, international border issues, and agribusiness in ten U.S. and Canadian member states, provinces and territories. Gloria’s most treasured relationships are with her Mother, daughter, six siblings and the extended family of the Totoricagüena Egurrola tribe.