Fernando Quevedo Rodríguez (born 12 May 1956 in San José, Costa Rica) is a Guatemalan physicist[1] and obtained his early education in Guatemala.

He was the director of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) between October 2009 and November 2019.

[2][3] He obtained his BSc in physics from the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala in 1979, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1986 under the supervision of Nobel laurate Steven Weinberg.

[1] Following a string of research appointments at CERN, Switzerland, McGill University in Canada, Institut de Physique in Neuchatel, Switzerland, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, as well as a brief term as professor of physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

[4] He has taught courses on the Standard Model, differential equations, complex methods, supersymmetry and extra dimensions.