Main Seminar: Innovation, Competitiveness and the Middle-Income Trap In Latin America

Convener(s): Eduardo Posada-Carbo

Speaker(s): Edmund Amann, Leiden University and Mahrukh Doctor, University of Hull

Edmund Amann is Professor of Brazilian Studies at Leiden University. Previously he was Reader in Development Economics in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester and Research Fellow at the University of Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies. His research centres on regulation, innovation and foreign direct investment in a developing country context. Much of his work focuses on the experiences of Latin America, especially Brazil. He has published in a wide range of development and economics journals including World Development and Oxford Development Studies. He is joint editor of the Oxford Handbook of the Brazilian Economy. In addition, he has acted as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank and was author of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Brazil Country Report.

Mahrukh Doctor is Professor of Comparative Political Economy in the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Hull. Her research interests include Brazilian political economy and foreign policy, and regionalism in Latin America (especially Mercosur and EU-Mercosur relations). She is author of Business-State Relations in Brazil: Challenges of the Port Reform Lobby (New York: Routledge, 2017). Previous positions include Adjunct Professor of Latin American Studies (2005-2017) at the Johns Hopkins University (SAIS-Europe) in Bologna, Research Fellow at the Centre for Brazilian Studies at Oxford (2000-2003) as well as Non-Executive Director of the BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust (2009-2023) and economist at the World Bank (1991-1993). She has been a visiting academic at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Universidade de São Paulo and SAIS-Europe. She received her doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2000.