Main Seminar: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NATURAL RESOURCES IN LATIN AMERICA
Convener: Eduardo Posada-Carbo
Chair: Diego Sánchez-Ancochea, LAC/OSGA
Speaker(s): Osmel Manzano, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), and Daniela Valdivia, Instituo de Estudos Peruano (IEP).
Osmel Manzano is Regional Economic Advisor for the Country Department for the Andean Countries at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), Nonresident Fellow for Latin American Energy Studies at the Center for Energy Studies (CES) at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, Adjunct Professor at the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, and Professorial Lecturer at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Previously he was the Regional Economic Advisor for the Country Department for Belize, Central America, Haiti, Mexico, Panama and Dominican Republic. Before joining the IADB, he was Assistant Director, and Coordinator of the Research Program at the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF). He was also Adjunct Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, and Universidad Catolica Andres Bello and IESA Business School -in Venezuela, and has been invited to teach at different Latin American universities. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He holds a Ph.D. Degree in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.Sc. in Economics from Universidad Catolica Andres Bello.
Daniela Valdivia is a Researcher at the Instituo de Estudos Peruano (IEP) and before was a Resraxh Fellow at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), specializing in the political economy of natural resources and the social impacts of extractive industries. Her work examines distributive justice, inequality, and the role of social license in shaping community-company relations in resource-dependent regions. She has co-authored studies on mining royalties, education, and inequality in Peru and the wider Andean region.
