Participants in order of appearance
Federico Foders,
born in Buenos Aires, studied Business Administration and earned
his doctorate in 1981 at the University of Hamburg. He is currently Coordinator of the
Research Program in Public Goods and Public Policy and Head of the Fundraising
Center of the Kiel Institute for World Economics. He joined the Institute for World
Economics in 1981 as a Research Associate. In 1994 he began to teach economics at the
Universities of Kiel and Cologne. In 2003 he was appointed a Honorary Professor at the
University of Cologne. His research interests include international economic policy,
economic growth and productivity, factor mobility, demography and European
integration. He has published widely on these topics and acted as an advisor to
governments in Latin America, Asia, Africa, the European Union and Eastern Europe.
Barbara Potthast
is Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Iberian and
Latin American History as well as the Speaker of the Interdisciplinary Center for
Teaching and Research on Latin America (LFZL) at the University of Cologne.
Currently, she also is President of the ADLAF (German Association of Research on
Latin America / Asociación Alemana de Investigación sobre América Latina). Her
major field of research is the history of gender and family relations in Latin America,
and she has published extensively on the subject. Geographically speaking, the Rio de la
Plata and especially Paraguay are her main fields of interest.
Peter Nunnenkamp,
born 1952, graduated in Economics at the University of
Muenster and received a PhD in Economics from the University of Giessen. He is
affiliated to the Kiel Institute for World Economics since 1978. He was Division Head
“International Capital Flows” at the Kiel Institute from 1987-2005. Presently, he is
Head of the Research Area “International Trade, Investment and Growth”. Dr.
Nunnenkamp has published various monographs and articles in refereed journals,
mainly on empirical aspects of globalization. Major fields of research include:
international capital flows, notably the determinants and effects of foreign direct
investment and foreign aid; international trade relations; financial crises and the reform
of the international financial architecture. The current focus is on the heterogeneity of
foreign direct investment and its economic effects in host countries and on the
distribution and effectiveness of foreign aid.
Manfred Wiebelt
is Research Fellow at the Kiel Institute for World Economics. He
studied economics and obtained his PhD at Heidelberg University. Before joining the
IfW in 1989, he was a Research Fellow at the South Asia Institute and at the Centre for
International Agrarian Development in Heidelberg. Dr. Wiebelt’s research activity
focuses on pro-poor growth, resource-based development, stabilization and structural
adjustment as well as on developing and applying Computable General Equilibrium
(CGE) models, mainly for use in distributional and poverty analysis. His publications
appear in many journals including Environmental and Resource Economics, Review of
World Economics, and Journal of Agricultural Economics. He is also a member of the
Editorial Board of Revista Latinoamericana de Desarrollo Económico.
Hernán Cortés Douglas
is Advisor at the UN Economic Commission for Latin
America and the Caribbean; Professor of Economics and Economic History at the
Catholic University of Chile, and Vice-President of the International Center for
Globalization, International Business and Development. He was Luksic Visiting Scholar
at Harvard University; Senior International Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury,
Chile; Deputy Research Administrator at the World Bank and Editor of World Bank
publications: Research Observer and Research News; Senior Economist, International
Monetary Fund; Advisor to Central Banks in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia,
Belarus, Uzbekistan and other Former Soviet Union Republics in the organization of
their new central banks and the adoption of new national currencies; Founder and
Director, Chilean Centre for Policy Studies at Santiago, and Editor and Founder of
Estudios Públicos.
