Participants in order of appearance
Joaquim Ramos Silva
is Associate Professor at the Institute of Economics and
Management of the Technical University of Lisbon (ISEG/UTL). He earned his PhD in
«Analyse et politique économiques» at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences
Sociales, Paris. He is the author of four books which include: Portugal/Brazil: A Decade
of Booming Economic Relations, 1992-2002 (Terramar, Lisbon, 2002), in Portuguese,
and the economic part of Portugal: An Atlantic Paradox, Portuguese/US Relations after
the EC Enlargement (IEEI, Lisbon, 1990). He also published about fifty papers in
scientific journals (Journal of Economic Studies, Revista de Administração de Empresas
– FGV São Paulo/UFMG, Lusotopie, Gazdasági Forum, etc.), chapters of collective
books, proceedings and in other publications. He was also Visiting Professor or Scholar
at the University of São Paulo, Hitotsubashi University, University of Orléans, Kiel
Institute of World Economics, UFMG/Belo Horizonte, CETEM/MCT – Rio de Janeiro.
Furthermore he is a member of several editorial boards of scientific journals and his
main research area is international economics.
Claudio Paiva, born in Minas Gerais, Brazil, earned his BS in Economics from Unicamp (Universidade de Campinas) in Brazil 1989. He received his PhD in
Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, with
concentration on Development Economics and Monetary Theory. Since 1996 he has
worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC and currently he
is Senior Economist at the IMF Institute where he teaches courses in Macroeconomic
Theory and Policy to government and central bank officials of IMF member countries.
Before this assignment he was IMF country desk economist for various countries,
including Portugal, Cyprus, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras and Brazil. He has also been
a Visiting Professor of Economics at Loyola College in Maryland, USA.
Klaus Frohberg
is Director of the Center for Development Research (ZEF),
Department of Economic and Technological Change at the University of Bonn. He is
Professor and holds a PhD in agricultural economics and is specialized in agricultural
policies in transition countries, rural development, environmental policies and economic
policies. He has worked as a Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied
System Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria; at the Institute of Agricultural Economics at the
University of Göttingen, Germany and at the University of Bonn, Germany. From 1986-
1988 he was Associate Professor at the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development
of the University of Iowa, Ames, USA and from 1988-1991 Principal Administrator at
the OECD in Paris. He has also been Executive Director and Head of Division of the
Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Halle,
Germany. Since October 2002 he is Full Professor and Director of the ZEF-Bonn.
Hildegard Stausberg
studied Politics, History, Economics and Law in Hamburg,
Cologne, Bonn and Buenos Aires. After her studies she worked at the Institute of
Political Science at the University of Bonn. From 1980–1987 she was an editor with
main focus on Latin America for the German daily newspaper “Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung” and from 1988 until 1993 as correspondent in Mexico. From there she reported
on Central America, the Caribbean and Venezuela. Dr. Stausberg has been Head of the
Ibero-Latin America programs since 1993 and since 1994 editor-in-chief radio for all
foreign language programs of the “Deutsche Welle”. Since August 1999 she is Head of
the foreign policy department of the German daily newspaper “Die Welt”. Furthermore
she is lecturer at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Cologne.
