Miguel Santos
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
Lecturer at Harris School of Public Policy
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- International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans
- Harvard Kennedy School
- Harris School of Public Policy
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Biography
Harvard Kennedy School
Miguel Angel Santos is an Adjunct Professor in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University.
At CID, he has been involved in various research projects aimed at helping governments to rethink their development strategies, both at the national and sub-national levels. Since he joined CID in August 2014, he has been involved in projects at the national level in Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela, and at the sub-national level in Mexico in the states of Chiapas, Baja California, Tabasco and Campeche; and the city of Hermosillo at Sonora state. He has also performed as project manager in the projects leading to the build-up of the Mexican Atlas of Economic Complexity, and the Peruvian Atlas of Economic Complexity.
Before joining the field of international development, Miguel worked for ten years in corporate finance and business development in Latin America, 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). At that point, he decided to switch tracks and get involved in development economics.
He holds two Master of Science degrees in International Finance and Trade (2011) and Economics (2012) from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University (2014), and a Ph.D. in Economics at Universidad de Barcelona (2016). He was the head of the Macroeconomic Policy Team for presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski in the Venezuelan elections of 2012.
Harris School of Public Policy
Miguel Angel Santos is the Director for Applied Research of the Growth Lab at Harvard University. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and Visiting Lecturer at Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. At the Growth Lab, Miguel has led multidisciplinary teams in developing top-notch research aimed at helping countries (Colombia, Mexico, Perú, Panama, Venezuela, Jordan, Albania, Namibia), states (Chiapas in Mexico), cities (Hermosillo in Mexico, and Buenos Aires in Argentina) and protected areas (Peruvian Amazonia) to rethink their development strategies.
Before joining the field of international development, Miguel Angel worked for ten years in corporate finance and business development in Latin America, 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 admitted as a Member of the Venezuela Academy of Social Sciences in May 2019.
Videos
Miguel Santos: How We Can Make Growth More Inclusive - The Case of Chiapas
Miguel Santos: The 'Sense of Us' In CID Engagements
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