Javier Santiso

Javier Santiso is a political economist who has authored several books on Latin America's development. An intellectual disciple of Albert O. Hirschman, his contributions deal with the study of temporality in political analysis and the role of different actors in development. He started his career in academia as political scientist but he was then chief economist for Latin America at BBVA. He is now the Chief Development Economist and Deputy Director of the OECD Development Centre.

Santiso, who is French and Spanish, holds several degrees from Sciences Po, France, including a PhD. He was a visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He managed the Albert Hirschman virtual institute and sits on the advisory council of CILAE (Centro de Investigación Latinoamérica Europa).

Books

* The Visible Hand of China in Latin America (Ed.), Paris, OECD Development Centre, 2007.
* Amérique latine. Révolutionnaire, libérale, pragmatique, Paris, Autrement, 2005.
* The political economy of emerging markets: actors, institutions and crisis in Latin America, New York / London, Palgrave, 2003.
* Les puissances émergentes d'Amérique latine. Argentine, Brésil, Chili, Mexique, Paris, Armand Colin, 1999 (with Alain Musset, Hervé Théry and Sébastien Velut).
* Tiempo y democracia, Caracas, Nueva Sociedad, 1999 (co-edited with Andreas Schedler).

External links

* [http://www.ceri-sciencespo.com/themes/javier/index.htm The Albert Hirschman virtual institute]
* [http://www.oecd.org/dev Development Centre]