Organisers

Leader: Oscar Ugarteche

Current position and activities

  • Tenured Senior Researcher Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas UNAM.
  • Professor of international finance, Faculty of Economics, UNAM
  • Member of the National System of Researchers CONACYT, Level III.
  • Coordinator, Economic Observatory of Latin America.

Degrees or diplomas 

  • B.A.: Finance; Fordham University New York. 1973
  • Master’s Degree: International Finance; London Business School, University of London. 1975
  • Doctorate: History and Philosophy; University of Bergen. 2007
  • Doctorate Honoris Causa; National University of San Agustín, Arequipa, Peru, 2015
  • Member of the Academia Mexicana de las Ciencias  

Previous Positions

  • Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru 1980-2004
  • Consultant to the United Nations system on external debt in Latin America and Geneva

Main professional experiences 

  • Head of the advisory team to the vice-presidency of the Congress of the Republic of Peru in the Investigative Commission on Economic and Financial Crimes during Fujimori’s period.
  • Member of the team that designed the UNCTAD Debt Registration and Control System, Geneva.
  • Member of the group that designed the  South American regional financial architecture under Presidents Correa, Kirchner and Chávez.

Research interests

  • International financial architecture
  • Latin American Financial Integration
  • History of international institutions
  • History of Latin American Economic Thought
  • International economy

Books: 27 published. The most recent ones:

  • Modernización Reformista y Deuda Externa en el Perú 1963-1976, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, 2019, 250pp.en prensa (febrero)
  • Arquitectura Financiera Internacional: Genealogía 1850-2015, IIEc-UNAM, AKAL, 2da ed Corregida y aumentada, Madrid México Buenos Aires, 2018. 404pp.-
  • Historia Crítica del FMI. Breviarios de Investigaciones Económicas, IIEc-UNAM, México; 3ra edición, Capital Intelectual, Buenos Aires, 2016, 186pp. 
  • Ideas towards a new international financial architecture?, Edited by Oscar Ugarteche, Alicia Puyana and Maria Alejandra Madi, WEA, Bristol, 2017 

Articles: 82 published. The most recent ones:

  • (2019), “Pedro Beltrán, Rómulo Ferrero and the origins of neoliberalism in Peru: 1945-1962”, PSL Quarterly Review, 72 (289): 149-166. 
  • Crisis de los Gobiernos Progresistas en AL” (2018) in Discursos del Sur, revista de teoría crítica en Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, http://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/discursos/index
  • With Fidel Aroche Reyes (2018) The death of development theory: From Friedrich von Hayek to the Washington consensus, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, DOI: 10.1080/01603477.2018.1486210
  • Wild Capitalism” in NACLA at 50:3; 268-269, Published online: 18 Oct 2018 https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rnac20/current#.Vz9xCucrJFQ

Book Chapters: 46 published. The most recent ones:

  • Double Movement, Embeddedness and the Transformation of the Financial System” in Polanyi Levitt and Desai, The Twenty-first Century Karl Polanyi, Manchester University Press, 2019, Chapter 5, Forthcoming, pp. 81-100.
  • Un enfoque teórico a los cambios en la arquitectura financiera internacional” in Arancibia y López (2019) Teoría del Valor y Crisis, UNAM-Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas, Mèxico.
  • La frustrada coordinación de política y cooperación financiera de América del Sur” in López y Ortiz, Asimetrías económicas y financieras de la globalización, FES Acatlán, DGAPA, UNAM, Mexico, 2018.
  • “Crecimiento, Comercio e Industria. Una visión del Perú de las últimas décadas” en La Alianza del Pacifico. Relevancia industrial y perspectivas en el nuevo orden global. Instituto para el  Desarrollo Industrial y el crecimiento económico-Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas UNAM, México, 2017.

Collaborator

  • Latin American Information Agency
  • Latindadd