Lecture:

“Venezuela: A Roadmap to Recovery”

​

Description:

This lecture will examine where the Venezuelan economy stands, from a historical perspective. What would a feasible recovery be, given our own erratic relationship to growth, and the world's experience with fast recovery? At last, what adaptive challenges do we need to tackle to pave the way for a feasible economic recovery?

​

Biography:

Miguel Angel Santos is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University. At CID Miguel has lead multidisciplinary teams on research projects aimed at helping countries (Mexico, Venezuela, Panama, Guinea) and regions (Chiapas) to rethink their development strategies.

 

Before joining the field of international development, Miguel Angel accumulated more than ten years of experience on corporate finance and business development, performing as Director of Finance for the Cisneros Group of Companies (1997-2003), Head of Corporate Finance for Mercantil Servicios Financieros (2005-2007), and Business Vice-President for Sony Pictures and Entertainment Latin America (2008-2009).

 

Miguel Angel holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Universidad de Barcelona, two Master of Science degrees in Economics and International Finance and Trade from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and a Master in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He was the Head of the Macroeconomic Policy Team for presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski in the Venezuelan elections of 2012.