Conference leaders
Alicia Puyana Mutis
Doctor in Economics, Oxford University, UK. Full time Professor at FLACSO, since November 1996 were she is professor in economics for graduate students. President of IDEAS since October 2021. She has been visiting fellow at the Oxford University Latin American Centre, The London School of Economics and El Colegio de México Member of the Directors boards of the Colombian Academy of Economics and of the Mexican Academy of sciences and the Mexican Academy of Political Economics. Besides that Dr. Puyana was and /or is member of the editorial boards of several academic journals: The Oxford Development Studies, El Trimestre Económico; World Economics Association, Real-World Economics Review and Founder member of the Instituto para el Desarrollo Industrial y el Crecimiento Económico.
Her research interests are economic growth, inequality and poverty, the political economy of oil and other natural resources, International economics and regional economic integration. At the moment she working on Energy transition and extractivism in Latin America. She has publish numerous academic papers and research articles and authored or coordinated important books. Some of the more recent are:
2020 Para el buen vivir de las personas. La teoría económica en contexto, Puyana, Alicia Coordinadora, ISBN 978-607-8517-81-7 Flacso México 2019 Elementos de Discriminación Estructural y Brechas de Desigualdad Laboral Hacia los Pueblos Indígenas Mexicanos. En coautoría con Jorge E. Horbath, ECOSUR, publicado por CONAPRED-CEPAL, México, ISBN: 978-607-8414-34-3.
2019 Deterioro y desigualdad del trabajo Las experiencias latinoamericanas 1990-2017. Cuadernos de la Transformación. Puyana Alicia ISBN: 978-607-8642-34-2 Fundación Friedrich Ebert
2018 América Latina en la larga historia de la desigualdad. Una revisión de causas, efectos y políticas. Martín Puchet y Alicia Puyana, Coordinadores.
2015 La economía petrolera en un mercado politizado y global. México y Colombia, FLACSO, México. ISBN: 978-607-9275-50-1.
2015 Ideas towards a new international financial architecture?, Oscar Ugarteche, Alicia Puyana y María Alejandra Madi (Editores), World Economics Association Book Series, Gran Bretaña, ISBN: 978-1-911156-15-4
2015 Paradojas de la globalización y el desarrollo latinoamericano, Alicia Puyana (Coord.), FLACSO, México. ISBN: 978-607-9275-72-3
2011 Strategies against Poverty. Designs from the North and Alternatives from the South. Samwel Ong’wen Okuro y Alicia Puyana (Ed.), SEPHIS-CLACSO-CROP, Buenos Aires, ISBN 978-987-1543-63-2.
2021 “Mexico: A Progressive Government Dilemma. Reforming the political system and facing an epidemic like no other” en Efil Jorunal Vol. 3 Num. 12
2020 “Discusión entre disponibilidad energética y sustentabilidad ambiental en Estados Unidos, 1980-2016” en The Anáhuac Journal Bussiness and Economics Vol. 20 No. 1 Primer semestre 2020 en coautoría con Isabel Rodríguez Peña
2020 “Del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte al Acuerdo México Estados Unidos-Canadá ¿Nuevo capítulo de la integración México Estados Unidos? En Trimestre Económico Vol. LXXXCII (3) Núm. 347 Julio-septiembre 2020
2020 “Seguridad energética en México, Estados Unidos y Canadá de 1980 al 2016, centralidad del petróleo y la incorporación de temas ambientales” en Norteamérica Revista Académica en coautoría con Isabel Rodríguez Año 15 No. 2 julio diciembre
2020 “Más de lo mismo El Neoextractivismo Latinoamérica del SIGLO XII. Revista Foro Vol. 4 Número 3 Pag. 19-28 ISSN 2310-7864
2020 “La Economía Política de la Desigualdad y el Desarrollo Una mirada al pasado para comprender el presente” Revista Problemas del Desarrollo en dictaminación
2021 “Factores relevantes para explicar la inestabilidad del mercado petrolero” en la revista Economía Institucional de la Universidad Externado de Colombia en dictaminación
2019 Latin American Neoextractivismo: Split or Deepening of the Liberal Model of the Economy? en Efil Juornal of Economic Research ISSN: 2619-9580
Maria Alejandra Madi
Maria Alejandra Madi holds a PhD in Economics (UNICAMP, Brazil). Her academic career includes a long-term professorship at the State University of Campinas UNICAMP (1983-2012) and visiting professorships at the University of Manitoba (Canada) and at the University of Kassel (Germany).
Se is currently Visiting Professor at the Green Economics Institute Academy (UK). She is also Chair of the World Economics Association (WEA) Online Conferences Programme, Editor of the WEA Books Conference Series and one of the founding editors of the WEA Pedagogy Blog (weapedagogy.wordpress.com/). On behalf of her interest in a pluralist Economics Education, she is Assistant Editor of the International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education.
Besides having published research papers and book reviews in international journals, she co-edited some of The Green Economics Institute (UK) books, including The Greening of Global Finance, The Greening of Latin America and Values, Valuation & Valuing. She also co-edited some of the World Economics Association (UK) books: The Economics Curriculum: towards a radical reformulation, Ideas towards a new international financial architecture, Capital and Justice, and Ten Years after the Global crisis
Her latest authored books include Small Business in Brazil: competitive global challenges, Pluralist Readings in Economics: key-concepts and policy-tools for the 21st century, Private Equity Globalisation: ethical business challenges, and The Dark Side of Nudges. Her 2020 books are: A new look at the philosophy of Keynes and Hayek: semiotic paths to complexity and Complexidade, economia e sociedade.
Among other activities, she is Vice-President of the Ordem dos Economistas do Brasil, fellow of the Center for Market Education (CME) and member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Green Economics.
In addition to her overall research interest that lies in the economic and social and challenges of globalization, her current line of investigation includes a philosophical discussion both of realism in economics and in the methodology of economics within the wider context of the philosophy of science.