Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Laura Pérez Ortiz

Laura Pérez Ortiz is a lecturer in the Department of Economic Structure and Development Economics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). Her research is focused on Labor Economics, particularly labor market institutions, collective bargaining, quality of employment, and gender economics. She is a member of the SET-LASE research group on Labour Socio-Economics.

Interdisciplinary Center for Development Studies, Uruguay

Alma Espino

Alma Espino is an Economist. She has been a researcher and Director (2007-2009) of the Institute of Economics of the Faculty of Economics and Administration, of the University of the Republic. Her main fields of research are labor market, commerce, and gender. Since 1997, Alma Espino has been the coordinator of the “Development and Gender Area” at the Interdisciplinary Center for Development Studies, Uruguay (CIEDUR). Since 2003, she has been a professor in the Regional Training Program on Gender and Public Policies (PRIGEPP-FLACSO) and since 2006, she has belonged to the Latin American Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics, and International Economics. Espino has worked as a consultant to government agencies and ministries in the country and the region, as well as to international organizations (World Bank, UNRISD, UN Women, IDB, ECLAC, UNDP, ILO and others). She is currently a member of the Advisory Group of the Civil Society for Latin America and the Caribbean of UN-Women.

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid / UNESCO

Virginia Maquieira

Virginia Maquieira D’Angelo is Professor of Social Anthropology at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). She was director of the Institute of Women’s Studies (UAM/2002-2006). She has served as Vice-President of International University Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP/2007-2011). Currently, she is Director of UNESCO Chair in Policies on Gender and Equal Rights between Women and Men. She has published on feminism and socio-anthropological theory; gender, culture and multiculturalism; local/global women’s organizations; globalization and Human Rights. Her major publications include Feminist critiques on Social Anthropology (1997); Gender, Anthropology and Human Rights (1999); Feminisms, contemporary debates (2001); Women, Globalization and Human Rights (2006/2010); Women’s movements in a global world (2007); Gender systems: knowledge innovation for equality (2010). She is a member of the editorial board of Gender & Society. She is currently conducting research on elderly women, human rights, and risk society.

Instituto Universitario de Estudios de la Mujer - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Pilar Montero

Pilar Montero has a degree in Biology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), and a PhD in Biological Sciences in 1989. She is also Full Professor of the Teaching Commission of Physical Anthropology (Department of Biology of the UAM), member of AEEH and Academic Secretary of the University Institute of Women’s Studies (IUEM). Her research deals with the human life cycle (aging, growth and development). 

Universidad Católica de Bogotá

Cristian Dario Castillo Robayo

Cristian Dario Castillo Robayo teaches Economics at the Universidad Católica de Bogotá’s Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences.

Universidad Católica de Bogotá

William Orlando Prieto Bustos

William Orlando Prieto Bustos is an economist at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia with a Master’s degree in Public Policy Analysis from the University of Rochester in New York. He is currently an associate professor and researcher at the Faculty of Economics of the Universidad Católica de Bogotá. His research interests revolve around applied institutional economics. From research and analysis he hopes to contribute to the construction of critical mass on issues relevant to institutional development in the political, economic, cultural and sports fields at local, regional, national and international levels.

Asociación Nacional de Empresarios de Colombia

Gizette Lemus León

Gizette Lemus León holds a Master’s in International Affairs with emphasis in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution bilingual. She is an MBA Candidate and Professional in International Relations and Political Studies, with extensive
experience in the quantitative and qualitative analysis of current affairs and economic research, foreign trade, international politics research, foreign trade, international politics, international cooperation, international business, and political science. She has worked in academia as a teacher, as well as in the public and private sector.

Universidade Federal de Goiás

Sandro Eduardo Monsueto

Sandro Eduardo Monsueto holds a degree in Economics from the Federal University of Viçosa (2002), a master’s degree in Economics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (CEDEPLAR – 2003), and a PhD in Economics from the Autonomous University of Madrid (2008). He has experience in the area of Labor Economics and Social Statistics, working mainly on the following topics: wage inequality, occupational mobility, and quality of occupations. He also works with Economics of Education (dropout and performance). He is a professor and researcher of the Graduate Program in Economics, the Graduate Program in Economics (PPE) and the Graduate Program in Administration (PPGADM), all at FACE/UFG (Universidade Federal de Goiás). He is the leader of the Research Group LAM – Laboratory of Microdata Analysis of FACE.

Universidad Católica de Bogotá

Jacobo Campo Robledo

Jacobo Campo Robledo is an economist at the Grupo de Estudios Económicos, Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio and a researcher at the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, Universidad del Católica de Colombia. His research interests include Applied Macroeconometrics and Financial Econometrics, Competition and Structure Markets, Economic Growth, Energy and Natural Resources, and Industrial Property.

Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil

Jorge Luis Delgado Salazar

Jorge Luis Delgado Salazar is International Mobility Coordinator at the Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil Faculty of Economics.

Universidad Espíritu Santo

Segundo Camino-Mogro

Segundo Camino-Mogro is a PhD student in Economics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM, 2015), from which he holds an MSc. in Economics. Currently, he is the National Director of Economic Research Department at Superintendencia de Compañías, Valores y Seguros del Ecuador (SCVS) in Guayaquil; Visiting Professor and Associate Researcher at ESAI Business School – Universidad Espíritu Santo and Ecuadorian Political Economy Lab (EPEL); and Visiting Professor at Universidad del Río and Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL). He has also been a Visiting Professor at ECOTEC University, Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil (UCSG), Universidad Agraria del Ecuador (UAE), Universidad Politécnica Salesiana Sede Guayaquil, as well as in the MBA and Master in Finance Program at Universidad de las Américas (UDLA), and the MBA at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE).

His main research focuses on the study of firm productivity, competition, regulation and public economics. He is interested in combining evidence from public economics and firm productivity.

Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil

Uriel Castillo

Uriel Castillo is an economist with a Master’s Degree in Business Management and a PhD in Economics from Nebrija University in Spain. He is a professor at the Catholic University of Guayaquil. In 2014 he was president of the Commission for Intervention and Strengthening of the Technical University Luis Vargas Torres of Esmeraldas.

Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil

Erwin Guillén

Erwin Guillén is Professor of Advanced Economics and Finance at the Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil. He holds a Doctorate in Business Sciences,  three Master’s Degrees (in Business Creation – Management, Administration, and Economics and Business Management), and a Higher Diploma in Finance. He has 19 years of professional experience in Private and Public Companies, within the Banking Sector and Financial Institutions, in areas of Economic, Sectorial, Business and Credit Risks. Economic – Financial – Costing Analyst. He has served as a consultant and/or advisor to Boards, Committees, Managers, Mayors, Executive Presidents and private or public collegiate bodies in management, projects, studies and market research with a social and/or lucrative approach.

Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Carlos Manuel Recuay Cóndor

Carlos Manuel Recuay Cóndor is a lawyer and economist, as well as the former Director of the School of International Economics of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM). He is currently Associate Professor and Researcher at the Faculty of Economics at UNMSM. With more than 12 years of experience in the public sector and more than 25 years in the private sector, his areas of expertise include research, elaboration and monitoring of socio-economic studies, software for economics, finance, and more.

Carlos Manuel Recuay Cóndor holds a doctorate in Economics and Education, and a Master’s in Economics from UNMSM, as well as a Master’s in Public Management and Governance, and a Master’s in Finance at Universidad del Pacífico and Business Administration at IPAE. 

Universidad Federal Fluminense

Ana Urraca-Ruiz

Ana Urraca-Ruiz holds a degree in Economics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain, 1989) and a PhD in Economic Sciences from the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain, 1998). She was a Visiting Student at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) of the University of Sussex (UK, 1994-1995) and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Universitá degli Studi di Siena (Italy, 2010). She is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Economics at Universidade Federal Fluminense, participating in undergraduate and graduate programs. She works in the areas of Industrial Economics and Economics of Innovation and Technological Change, working mainly on the following topics: technological internationalization, national technological specialization and its links with productive and trade specialization; economic growth, convergence and structural change; national patterns of innovation and national and firm’s technological competences. She was editor-in-chief of the ECONÔMICA/PPGE-UFF Journal from March 2008 to December 2009 and is currently a member of the editorial board of the Brazilian Journal of Innovation (Campinas-Unicamp). She is also a member of the Brazilian Association of Industrial Economics (ABEIN) and of the LALICS networks (Red Latinoamericana para el estudio de los Sistemas de Aprendizaje,. Innovación y Construcción de Competencias) and GLOBELICS (Global innovation and competence building in the context of economic development) networks.

Universidad Estadual de Campinas

Luciano Coutinho

Luciano Coutinho holds a PhD in Economics from Cornell University (USA) and is a guest professor at the University of Campinas (Unicamp). His academic studies have always had industrial policy and the real side of the economy as main themes.

A specialist in industrial and international economics, he wrote and organized several books, besides having an extensive production of articles, published in Brazil and abroad. In 1994, he coordinated the Brazilian Industry Competitiveness Study, a work by almost one hundred specialists that mapped with unprecedented depth the Brazilian industrial sector.

Between 1985 and 1988 he was Executive-Secretary of the Ministry of Science and Technology, participating in the structuring of the Ministry and in the conception of policies directed to areas of high complexity, such as biotechnology, information technology, fine chemistry, precision mechanics, and new materials.

Born in Pernambuco, Coutinho holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of São Paulo and, during his course, was awarded the Gastão Vidigal prize as the best student in Economics in São Paulo. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the Economic Research Institute of USP and was a visiting professor at the Universities of São Paulo, Paris XIII, Texas, and the Ortega y Gasset Institute, as well as a full professor at Unicamp. Until assuming the presidency of the BNDES, he was a partner at LCA Consultores, working as a consultant-specialist in antitrust, international trade, and economic forensics.

Universidad Autónoma de México

Gabriela Dutrénit

Gabriela Dutrénit is an economist with a PhD in Science and Technology Research Studies from the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, UK. She is coordinator of the Master Program in Economics, Management and Policies of Innovation, and the related area of the PhD Social Sciences program at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Mexico. She is a regular member of the Mexican Academy of Science. She is coordinator of LALICS (Latin American Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems), the Latin American Chapter of GLOBELICS. During 2012-2014 she was Coordinator of the Scientific and Technological Advisory Forum in Mexico. Gabriela Dutrénit’s research interests include: innovation and development, in particular learning and technological capability accumulation at the firm level; university–industry linkages; research and development (R&D) and innovation policy. She has coordinated several evaluations of the Mexican policy of science, technology and innovation.  

Instituto Superior de Economía y Gestión - Universidad Técnica de Lisboa

Francisco Louçã

Francisco Louçã is a Full Professor of Economics in Lisbon’s Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (“Higher Institute of Economics and Management”), which belongs to the University of Lisbon (formerly Technical University of Lisbon) and was a member of the Portuguese Parliament from 1999 to 2012.

He is the author of several books and scientific articles on the history of economic thought, the dynamics of complex adaptive systems and the nature of long-term techno-economic change, including “Turbulence in Economics” (Elgar, 1997), “As Time Goes By” (with Christopher Freeman, Oxford University Press, 2011 and 2002, translated into Portuguese, Chinese), “The Years of High Econometrics” (Routledge, 2007) and a number of papers in scientific journals in economics, mathematical physics, history of economic ideas, mathematical modeling of financial markets, history of biology. His scientific books are translated into eleven languages. In 1999 he was awarded the prize for the best scientific paper of the year, “History of Economics Association”.

Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro

Carlos Frederico Leão Rocha

Carlos Frederico Leão Rocha is full professor at the Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro’s Institute of Economics (IE). He is also a researcher in Industrial and Innovation Economics and works in the Graduate Program in Economics at UFRJ. He holds a degree in Economic Sciences, a master’s and a doctorate in Economics of Industry and Technology, all three degrees from UFRJ. He holds post-doctoral degrees from Università Degli Studi di Siena (Italy) and from the Institute for High Technology – United Nations University (Netherlands). He was director of IE and vice-president of the UFRJ Faculty Association (Adufrj). In addition, he was a member of the Technical Committee of the UFRJ Master Plan and representative of the Council for Undergraduate Education (Cepg).

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Ana Viñas Apaolaza

Ana Viñas Apaolaza is Professor of Economics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her main lines of research revolve around economic analysis and labor economics, as shown by her numerous contributions to national and international conferences and publications. She is a member of the UAM’s Socio-Economics of Labor research group SET-LASE.

During her first pre-doctoral period, Prof. Viñas worked in the field of the economics of innovation and economic growth, and regional technology policies. Her predoctoral participation in two research projects financed by the European Commission stands out, as well as the results of such research through the publication of articles and book chapters in prestigious journals and publishers.

After the presentation of her doctoral thesis, she entered the labor market, first as head of a technological diffusion center of the Community of Madrid and in 2005 as economist of the Research Service of the UGT Union, marking her specialization in the area of labor market and employment policies.

At the same time, in 2004, she joined the European University of Madrid as assistant professor, developing her teaching work in this University until 2021. Since 2016 she has also collaborated with other universities, where she teaches postgraduate courses.

During this stage, she has participated in a project of the State Program for Research, Development and Innovation oriented to the Challenges of Society and in international congresses, and has published articles, book chapters, and books, and received the Accésit of the III José Luis Sampedro Award at the XII Meeting of World Economy, SEM in 2010.

Universidad de la República (Uruguay)

Hugo Barretto Ghione

Hugo Barretto Ghione is Professor of Labor and Social Security Law at Universidad de la República (Uruguay). His other posts include Secretary of the Editorial Board of the Revista Derecho Laboral (Uruguay) and of the Revista Derecho Social Latinoamérica; Associate Professor at the European and Latin American Center for Social Dialogue; and member of the Iberoamerican Academy of Labor Law and Social Security. He is the author of “Theory and Method in Labor Law”, “Understanding Labor Law through Cinema” and “Labor Law and Literature. El poder directivo del empleador en tres relatos clásicos” and several publications in ILO/CINTERFOR.

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Maria del Mar Alarcón Castellanos

Maria del Mar Alarcón Castellanos holds a PhD in Labor Law from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, with the qualification “cum laude”.  She holds a Master’s Degree in “Prevention of Occupational Risks” from Universidad San Pablo-CEU (August 2014).

In the teaching field, her work since 1993 has been developed in different private and public centers. Since 1995 she has been Professor of Labor Law and Social Security at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. In addition to her teaching work, she has also been in charge of the Labor Department (Labor Consultancy and Management) of several law firms and Economists.

In January 2009 she was appointed Manager of the Regional Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. In 2011 she was appointed General Director of Labor of the Community of Madrid, currently holding both positions simultaneously. Since June 2015, she is Editorial Advisor of the Legal Magazine “IURIS & LEX”, which is published monthly in digital format by “elEconomista”. The Editorial Board is the body in charge of advising the Editorial Office in the choice of the most innovative topics in the legal field and of analyzing the lines to follow for the editorial comments. In addition, since June 2013 she has been an Elective Trustee and Nata President of the Fundación Instituto Laboral de la Comunidad de Madrid.

Since January 2012, she has been Coordinator of the Autonomous Communities in the Working Groups of the National Commission for Safety and Health at Work, both in the competencies of the General Directorate of Labor and in those related to Occupational Safety and Health. She has been a member of the National Commission for Safety and Health at Work, representing the Community of Madrid, since September 2011.

In the scientific and research area, and since 1994, she is author and co-author of monographs and doctrinal articles and co-director of various publicly funded research. She has also participated, as Director and Coordinator, in numerous Courses, Seminars, Round Tables, Masters and Conferences. She has been a member of Doctoral Thesis Tribunals.

She has obtained several awards, such as the Gold Medal for Professional Merit of the General Council of Occupational Safety and Health Professionals, with green badge (2015), the “Quixote” Award, in its 2015 Edition, for her professional career and for her work in favor of Occupational Health and Safety awarded by the Castilian Society of Occupational Medicine and Safety; the First Prize “Financial Studies” in the modality of “Labor and Social Security” (CEF) – (2013); the Individual Award for professional career and work in favor of Occupational Health and Safety, granted by the Sociedad Castellana de Medicina y Seguridad del Trabajo, in its 2nd edition (2012); the Award for “Quality and Professional and Business Excellence (2011), in the category “Promotion of Social and Solidarity Values”, unanimously awarded by the National Association of Social Graduates “Hidalgo Schumann” and the Award for the Promotion of Social Dialogue of the International Association “Alonso Olea” which recognizes people who stand out in the framework of Labor Law and Social Security, among others.

She is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the Magazine “Derecho Social y Empresa”, of the UNESCO Chair of Social and Labor Promotion of the Sagardoy Foundation.

Academia Iberoamericana de Derecho del Trabajo (Uruguay)

Jorge Rosenbaum

Jorge Rosenbaum is President of the Academia Iberoamericana de Derecho del Trabajo. He is also Professor of Labor Law and Social Security at the Universidad de la República’s School of Law in Uruguay, where he also serves as Professor of Collective Labor Law and Academic Director in the area of Labor and Social Security Law (Master’s Degree, Specialization and Continuing Education) at the Graduate School. 

Universidad de Sevilla

Jesús Cruz Villalón

Jesús Cruz Villalón is Director of the Labor Law and Social Security Department at the Universidad de Sevilla.  He has served as President of the Labour Law and Social Security Spanish Association and Director of Labor Affairs, Industrial Relations and Social Welfare Andalusia. Prof. Villalón is also a recipient of the San Raimundo of Peñafort Cross of Honor.

Autonomous University of Madrid

Julimar da Silva Bichara

Julimar da Silva Bichara is Associate Professor at Departamento de Estructura Económica y Economía del Desarrollo at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). He has been a member of SASE since 2006, participating as a Spanish Language Network co-organizer since 2008, member of the Organize Committee of the SASE Ibero-American regional conferences and Member of the Executive Council since 2018. As a member of SASE’s Ibero-American chapter, Julimar has participated of the four editions of SASE Ibero-American Meeting (2013 UNAM – Mexico; 2015 UFRGS – Porto Alegre, Brazil; 2017 – UTB Cartagena de Indias, Colombia; 2019 – UNC – Costa Rica) as member of the organizing and scientific committees.

I have recently published in Cepal Review, Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Sustainability, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Metroeconomica. I edited the book Economic Policies for Development: Beyond the Milenium Goals (Nova Science Publishers, 2020) alongside Carmen Díaz-Roldan and Laura Pérez Ortiz.

Universidad Nacional de la Plata y Banco Central (Argentina)

Jorge Eduardo Carrera

Jorge Eduardo Carrera is Professor of International Finance at the UNLP and of International Macroeconomics in the Master in Economics and PhD in Economics at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). He has taught at Università di Pavia, Università di Bologna in Buenos Aires, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT), Sapienza Università di Roma and Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA).

At the Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA) he was Deputy General Manager of Economic Research and, previously, Senior Manager of that area. He served as Deputy Director at the Center for International Economics (CEI) and as a consultant on macroeconomic issues for several international institutions. As a representative of the Central Bank, he conducted studies on the redesign of the international financial architecture. He is also a technical delegate to the G20 and the Financial Stability Board (FSB).

An independent researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), he is currently investigating the theoretical and empirical implications of financial and trade internationalization for emerging economies. Previously, he conducted research on the determinants of the real exchange rate in Latin America, capital flows and the business cycle, the effect of commodity price shocks and the process of reserve accumulation. He has also devoted himself to the study of international financial regulation and the evolution of Mercosur and other integration alternatives.

He is the author of the books: Coordination of macroeconomic policies in Mercosur, The Mercosur dilemma, The economic policy of reserve accumulation: new international evidence and Commodity prices: structural factors, financial markets and non-linear dynamics. He was responsible editor of the Banco Central de la República’s  Journal Ensayos Económicos y de Estudios Económicos from 2006 to 2016 and participates in the editorial board of other international academic journals. He has written more than 50 articles for specialized publications and seven chapters for different books.

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)

André Moreira Cunha

André Moreira Cunha is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and International Relations at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and CNPq Researcher (since 2005). He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the State University of Campinas (2002) and held a post-doctoral fellowship in Economics at the University of Cambridge (2012). He was visiting professor at the University of Leiden (Holland), Professor at Unisinos (1995-2003) and Advisor to the BRDE Board of Directors (1999-2003). He is the author of numerous articles published in national and international journals, such as: Revista de Economia Política, Revista da ANPEC, Economia e Sociedade, Ensaios FEE, Nova Economia, Revista Análise Econômica, Cepal Review, Latin America Research Review, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, America Latina Hoy, and others; of book chapters (edited in Brazil and abroad) and books (both authored and co-authored), related to macroeconomic aspects of international trade and finance; globalization; economic integration; and economic development.

Free University Berlin

Barbara Fritz

Barbara Fritz is Professor in the Economics Department and the Latin American Institute at at Freie Universität Berlin. She has worked on regional financial arrangements, currency hierarchy, capital account regulation, among others. She has published numerous articles in international peer-refereed journals including Contemporary Politics, Open Economics Review, Development and Change, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention, and Journal of Economic Policy Reform.

Universidad de la República (Uruguay)

Gabriela Mordecki

Gabriela Mordecki is Director of the Workshop on Economic Situation Analysis and member of the National Economy Seminar at the Universidad de la República’s School of Economic Sciences.