Latin America Experts
Director of the Ph.D. Program in Social Sciences, University of San Marcos, Lima
EducationPh.D., New School for Social Research, New York CityExperienceJuly 2001-July 2002, Peru's Minister of Education; Domestic Policy Governor of the Peruvian President, Alejandro Toledo
Professor of Economics and Director, PhD Program in Economics at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM)
EducationPhD (1993) Economics, University of California, Los AngelesB.A. (1987) Social Sciences (Economics), Universidad Catolica del Peru
Professor Titular at the Center for Development Studies (CENDES) at the Central University of Venezuela
I have been a researcher and lecturer of Contemporary Political History of my country for more then twenty five years. I have studied political and social participation in different historical periods of Venezuela's democracy. In that context I have investigated on parties and popular protest in 20th Century Venezuela, especially during the final years of that century when Venezuelan society e...
Senior Researcher, Centro Boliviano de Estudios Multidisciplinarios (CEBEM)
As an undergraduate student at the University of Marburg and the Free University of Berlin my key interests were in political philosophy and my focus was on philosophical foundations of politics and modernity. Berlin was then at the heart of the Cold War and the confrontation of radically different political systems. My first intellectual and political experiences were deeply marked by this contex...
Department of Political Science, George Washington University
From my undergraduate education to my current project, there have been twists and turns in my intellectual trajectory. However, like most scholars, since my dissertation research I have sought to contribute to knowledge through studies for which I have a base of expertise and which, hopefully, help resolve important concerns in the specific countries at the time. As an undergraduate at Harvard Uni...