Este seminario es el segundo de una serie de cuatro seminarios. El objetivo de la serie es entender qué significa el nuevo consenso en torno a la política industrial y qué implicaciones tiene, sobre todo para los países en desarrollo. Aprovechando las capacidades e investigaciones del Oxford Handbook of Industrial Policy, publicado recientemente, este segundo seminario aborda los desafíos de la política industrial en América Latina y el Caribe. Se trata de una región en dicha política se abandonó en la mayor parte de los países que la componen desde los 1990s, y que ha permanecido marcada por la baja diversificación productiva y el lento crecimiento de la productividad. Los impactos de la pandemia, la gravedad de la crisis social y la persistencia de su rezago tecnológico, exigen para su superación una nueva era de políticas industriales. Contribuir a fortalecerlas y diseñarlas es el objetivo del seminario.
PROGRAMA
Introducción:
- E. Federico Villegas, Representante Permanente de Argentina ante la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra
Moderador:
- Mario Cimoli, Subsecretario Ejecutivo de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
Presentadores:
- Luis E. Bértola Flores, Profesor de Historia y Desarrollo Económico y Social, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.
- Maria Savona, Profesora de Economía de la Innovación, Unidad de Investigación de Políticas Científicas (SPRU) de la Universidad de Sussex y de Economía Aplicada en DEF, Universidad de Luiss, Roma
- José Gabriel Porcile Meirelles, Oficial a Cargo, Oficina de Montevideo, Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
Sesión de preguntas y respuestas
Palabras de clausura:
- Richard Kozul-Wright, Director, División de Globalización y Estrategias de Desarrollo, Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Comercio y Desarrollo (UNCTAD)
Regístrese en línea
Federico Villegas is the Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations Office at Geneva, since 2020. Prior to his arrival in Geneva, Mr. Villegas had been serving as Argentina’s Ambassador to Mozambique until 2016. He served as the Director General of Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina from 2012 to 2016, and from 2005 to 2007. He was Argentina’s Alternate Representative to the Southern Common Market MERCOSUR and the Association for Latin-American Integration ALADI in Montevideo, Uruguay from 2008 to 2011.
A career diplomat, Mr. Villegas joined Argentina's Foreign Service in 1993. He was Deputy Director General of Human Rights at the Ministry in 2003 and 2004, and Argentina’s Alternate Representative to the Organization of American States in Washington DC from 1995 to 2003. He also served at the Directorate of International Security, Nuclear and Space Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1995.
Mr. Villegas has a Master of Arts in liberal studies from Georgetown University, Washington DC (1998). He graduated as a lawyer from the National University of Rosario in Santa Fe, Argentina (1989). He also attended an intensive programme for human rights at New College, Oxford University, United Kingdom (1999), and has a human rights diploma from the International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France (2001). He was born in Santiago del Estero, Argentina on 24 March 1966. He is married with two children.
Mario Cimoli is the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). With over twenty years of experience in the United Nations, he is responsible for overseeing and coordinating multi-disciplinary and inter-divisional working groups, substantive institutional documents, and advisory services to ECLAC member governments on development issues.
He has also served as Director of the Division of Production, Productivity and Management since 2010, overseeing research and technical assistance to Member State governments on issues related to the productive development of the region. Prior to joining the United Nations, he was Professor of Economics at the University of Venice. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Sussex.
His extensive publication record reflects a substantial contribution to the fields of micro and macroeconomic policies, with a focus on development paths, economic growth and the interconnections between industrial policy, technological development and innovation.
Recent publications include: Industrial Policies, Patterns of Learning and Development: an Evolutionary Perspective (2020); Choosing sides in the trilemma: international financial cycles and structural change in developing economies (2020); and A technology gap interpretation of growth paths in Asia and Latin America (2019). These complement his seminal works: Learning, Technological Capabilities and Structural Dynamics (2011); Innovation and Economic Development: the Impact of Information and Communication Technologies in Latin America (2010); Industrial Policy and Development, The Political Economy of Capabilities Accumulation (with Dosi, G. and J. E. Stiglitz, 2009); and Institutions and policies in developing economies (with Dosi, G., R. R. Nelson, and J. E. Stiglitz, 2009).
Richard Kozul-Wright is the director of UNCTAD’s globalization and development strategies division.
He has worked at the UN in both New York and Geneva and published widely on economic issues, including in the Economic Journal, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, the Journal of Development Studies, and the Oxford Review of Economic Policy.
He has co-written books such as The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism with Paul Rayment and co-edited volumes of Transnational Corporations and the Global Economy, Economic Insecurity and Development, Securing Peace, Climate Protection and Development and Industrial Policy.
He also co-edited Transforming Economies: Making Industrial Policy Work for Growth, Jobs and Development with the International Labour Organization.
He holds a PhD degree in economics from the University of Cambridge in the UK.
