| Birth Name: | Eduardo Cruickshank Smith |
| Birth Date: | 29 January 1958 |
| Birth Place: | Limón, Costa Rica |
| Office1: | President of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica |
| Predecessor1: | Carlos Ricardo Benavides Jiménez |
| Successor1: | Silvia Hernández Sánchez |
| Office2: | Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica |
| Predecessor2: | Danny Hayling Carcache |
| Constituency2: | Limón (1st Office) |
| Office3: | President of the Municipal Council of Limón |
| Office4: | Alderman of the Municipal Council of Limón |
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Eduardo Cruickshank Smith (born 29 January 1958) is a Costa Rican politician as well as an Evangelical pastor, lawyer, and notary. He is the former President of the Costa Rican parliament, a position he held from 2020 to 2021. He is the first Afro-Costa Rican to ever hold that position.[1]
Cruickshank was born in a Jamaican-Costa Rican family of 8 children. His brother Clinton Cruickshank Smith is also a politician, being a former legislator and former presidential candidate of the National Liberation Party.[2] His father as a carpenter and his mother was a housewife.[3]
Before entering politics he was pastor at the Colina de su Gloria church in his hometown of Limón, and has a degree in law from the University of Costa Rica.[2] He is married to Jeannette Edwards and has two children: Jermaine Eduardo Cruickshank Edwards and Yocelyn Shavony Cruickshank Edwards. He is also a grandfather.[2]
Having been first elected to the Legislative assembly of Costa Rica in 2018, he was elected president of said assembly in 2020.[4]
In the spring of 2021, Cruickshank announced his candidacy for the upcoming 2022 Costa Rican general election, running on an anti-corruption and pro-business campaign.[3]