UCEMA Friedman Hayek Center for the Study of a Free Society
International Advisory Council
Members
Research Assistants
Enrique Aguilar
× Enrique Aguilar is Doctor in Political Sciences from the Catholic University of
Argentina. He was
director of the Institute of Political Sciences and International Relations and later dean of the Faculty of
Social
Sciences of the UCA. He is currently director of the Doctorate in Political Sciences at the same university.
He is
Professor of political theory at UCA, UCEMA, FLACSO/Argentina and other university areas, he is author of
several
publications on topics of this specialty, among them the books Nación y Estado en el pensamiento de Ortega y
Gasset y
Alexis de Tocqueville. Una lectura introductoria. He has taught courses and seminars in academic centers in
Argentina
and abroad. He is member of the editorial board of Criterio and is also a member of the committees of
several national
and foreign scientific journals. He also is also a member of the advisory council of the Foundation Freedom
and
Progress, and the Board of Directors of FOGA.
Alberto Benegas Lynch (h)
× Alberto Benegas Lynch (Jr.) is a Doctor in Economics (UCA) and a Doctor in Management
Sciences
(UADE). He is President of the Economic Sciences Section of the National Academy of Sciences of Buenos Aires
and is a
member of the National Academy of Economic Sciences. He is corresponding academic of the National Academy of
Economics
of Uruguay, member of the Scientific Committee of Market Processes. European Journal of Political Economy in
Madrid
and member of the Advisory Board in Advances in Austrian Economics in New York. He is author of twenty eight
books,
besides another ten in collaboration and four as co-author. He was tenured professor through competition at
the
University of Buenos Aires and he taught in five university careers: Economic Sciences, Law, Engineering,
Sociology
and in the Department of History of Philosophy and Letters. He was full professor of the subject The
Austrian School
as an alternative paradigm in economics in the doctorate of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of
the UCA and
Director of the Doctorate Department of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the National University of La
Plata and,
during 23 years, president of ESEADE where he is Professor Emeritus. He was economic advisor of the Buenos
Aires Stock
Exchange, The Argentine Chamber of Commerce, the Argentine Rural Society and of the Inter-American Council
of Commerce
and Production. He was twice Member of the Board of Mont Pelerin Society, is member of the Academic Advisory
Council
of the Institute of Economic Affairs (London), is Academic Associate of Cato Institute (Washington DC) and
of Ludwig
von Mises Institute (Auburn), member of the Institute of Methodology of the Social Sciences of the National
Academy of
Moral and Political Sciences in Buenos Aires and received honorary degrees from universities in his country
and
abroad. He is President of the Freedom and Progress Foundation (Fundación Libertad y Progreso) in Argentina
and
President of the Editorial Board of the Argentine subsidiary of Unión Editorial of Madrid.
Andrés Bellido
× Andrés Bellido Arias has a degree in Philosophy (Universidad Nacional del Sur), a
Certificate in
Educational Technologies (Universidad Tecnológica Nacional) and holds a PhD in Philosophy (Universidad
Nacional del
Sur). He is a postdoctoral researcher at CONICET, based at the National Academy of Sciences of Buenos Aires.
He was a
fellow of ERASMUS-MUNDOS, DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) and Fundación Santander. He was
assistant
professor of "History of Contemporary Philosophy" (by public competition at Universidad Nacional del Sur).
Currently,
he works as a full professor of "Philosophy", "Scientific thought" and "Elements of political science" at
the
University of Cema; as adjunct professor of "Applied Philosophy and Ethics" at the University of the Defense
and as
assistant professor at the Technological Institute of Buenos Aires. He has participated in congresses and
conferences
both nationally and internationally. His current line of research focuses on the study of the forms of
production of
meaning and signification from a phenomenological perspective.
Agustina Borella
×Has a degree in Philosophy (Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino) and holds a PhD
in
Philosophy (University of Buenos Aires). Currently, she teaches at postgraduate level at University of CEMA,
National
University of Luján, and ESEADE. University of Buenos Aires- Common Basic Course: contest held in 2016:
Associate
Regular Professor of Methodology of Social Sciences. Resolution of the Superior Council: pending. Her
research area is
philosophy of science and in particular, epistemology of economics. Her recent publications include: Modelos
Económicos y Realidad; “Hayek in Lawson’s view: Positivism, Hermeneutics and Ontological Individualism”,
Revista de
Instituciones, Ideas y Mercado; “Pluralismo Narrativo para una Economía del Mundo Real”, Revista Empresa y
Humanismo;
“Del Círculo de Viena a Nuestros Días: Una Historia de Enredos”, Economía: Teoría y Práctica; “Fundamento
Ontológico
del Modelo en Hayek”, Procesos de Mercado. Revista Europea de Economía Política; and Trazos-Ensayos de
filosofía para
el mundo social.
Nicolas Cachanosky
× Nicolás Cachanosky is Ph.D. in Economics from Suffolk University, Master in Economics
and
Political Sciences from Economía y Ciencias Políticas ESEADE and Bachelor in Economics from the Catholic
University of
Argentina (UCA). He is Associate Professor of Economics of the Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU
Denver).
He is Senior Fellow of the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) in the Sound Money Project. He is
author of
Monetary Equilibrium and Nominal Income Targeting (2018, Routledge) and co-author together with Peter Lewin
of
Austrian Capital Theory: A Survey of the Essentials (2019, Cambridge University Press) and Capital and
Finance: Theory
and History (2020, Routledge). His academic papers have been published in journals such as Journal of the
History of
Economic Thought, Review of Financial Economics, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of
Institutional
Economics, Public Choice, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Southern Economic Journal, and The
Review of
Austrian Economics, among others. He is currently President of the Association of Private Enterprise
Education, serves
in the Board of Directors of the Mont Pelerin Society and is member of the Academic Committee of the Acton
Argentina
Institute. He is editor of the Journal LIBERTAS: Segunda Época and is member of the editorial board of The
Review of
Austrian Economics and The Economists' Voice. He publishes columns in various Argentine media, such as La
Nación,
Infobae, El Cronista, Perfil and Ambito.
Walter Castro
× Walter Castro is a Doctor and Master in Economics from the ESEADE University Institute.
Master in
Business Administration from CEMA University. National Public Accountant from the National University of
Rosario
(UNR). Tenured professor of Undergraduate and degrees at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina
(UCA
Rosario). Having already served more than 25 years in specialized journalism, he currently conducts his
daily radio
program “El Regreso” (Return) on Fisherton CNN -now CNN Radio Rosario-, and participates weekly as economic
columnist
for a television program broadcast by Cablevisión. Since 1992 he is Founding Partner of “Castro y
Fernández”, a
consulting firm specialized in advising and reengineering business companies. He was a Founding Member of
the Tax
Studies Forum and a Member of the Society of Ethical Studies of Rosario. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin
Society
and the Adam Smith Society. He is Visiting Professor at the Francisco Marroquín University of Guatemala in
its Public
Choice Chair, and Guest Professor at the Institutions Chair of the Master in Economics at the OMMA Center
for Higher
Studies (Madrid, Spain). He is a Professor at Cato University and Director and participant of the Liberty
Fund
Colloquia.
Alejandro Corbacho
×Alejandro Corbacho is director of the Observatory of Security and Defense (OSYD) and
director
of the Political Science Program at UCEMA. He also is full professor in the Strategy Area at the Argentine
Naval
War College. He is counselor member of the Argentine Council of International Relations (CARI) in Buenos
Aires.
He is a specialist in international relations, comparative political analysis, international security and
defense,
diplomatic and military history. He was a Fulbright, Ford and CONICET fellow. He is Master of Arts in
Political
Science and Certificate of Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
Ph.D. in
Political Science at University of Connecticut.
Ricardo Crespo
×Ricardo F. Crespo is Professor of Philosophy of Economics at IAE, Universidad Austral,
and at
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, and “Principal” Researcher at the Argentine Council of Scientific Research. He
is a
graduate in economics and philosophy and earned a Ph. D. in Philosophy (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo) and
another in
Economics (University of Amsterdam). He has extensively published articles and chapter books on his research
topics.
His recent publications include articles in Synthese, the Journal of Institutional Economics, Foundations of
Science,
Cambridge Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Applied Economics. His last book is The Nature and Method
of
Economic Sciences. Evidence, Causality, and Ends (Routledge, London, 2020). His current research interests
include
explanation in the social sciences, economic rationality, and ethics in economics.
Francisco De Santibañes
×Francisco de Santibañes is Vice President of the Argentine Council for International
Relations
(CARI) and Global Fellow of the Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington DC. He is also author
of the
books La Argentina y el Mundo (Edicon, 2016), La Rebelión de las Naciones (Vértice de Ideas, 2019) and La
Argentina
después de la Tormenta (Vértice de Ideas, 2021). He has written for specialized journals such as Survival,
Armed
Forces and Society and Comparative Strategy, and he is professor in the Master in Public Policy of the
Austral
University. Among other institutions, he has given presentations in Chatham House, Johns Hopkins University,
Wilson
Center, the ISEN, Institut Français des Relations Internationales (Ifri) and the German Council for Foreign
Policy. He
is a columnist for Infobae-
Julio Elías
×Julio J. Elias is Professor in the Department of Economics and Business School of the
University of
CEMA (UCEMA), Argentina. He is also Executive Director of the UChicago/UCEMA Joint Inititiative for Latin
American
Experimental Economics (JILAEE), Director of the MA program in Economics at UCEMA and a Research Associate
of the
Center of Excellence on Human Capital and Economic Growth and Development of the State University of New
York at
Buffalo. He was Visiting Fellow of the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago, Visiting
Professor at
the University of Chicago, the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and the State University of New York
at Buffalo,
and Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was also Chief Economist of BICE,
Argentina, and Senior economist at the Central Bank of Argentina. He earned his BA from the Universidad Di
Tella in
1996 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2005. His research focuses on health
economics,
economic development, the economics of education and labor economics. He has studied with Gary Becker the
impact of
allowing remuneration for organ donations. His current research uses experimental economics to understand
the
economics of controversial transactions. He has articles published in the American Economic Review, the
Journal of
Economic Perspectives, Plos One. In 2016, a joint paper of Mauro Alem and Julio Elias was awarded the
“Rommel Acevedo
Latin American Award on Developing Banking” of ALIDE.
Marcos Gallacher
× Dr. Gallacher is in charge of the activities of the Department of Agricultural
Economics,
Agribusiness and Natural Resources of the University of CEMA. Has done consulting work for the US-AID, the
World Bank,
the Inter American Institute of Cooperation for Agriculture (IICA), FAO and the Argentine Association of
CREA Groups
(AACREA). At UCEMA he teaches Microeconomics, Decision Theory and Theory of Organizations. Professional
interests
include the measurement of efficiency, human capital and technical change. In 2014, the National Academy of
Agronomy
and Veterinary Science awarded Dr. Gallacher the “José María Bustillo” prize. Dr. Gallacher received his
education at
the University of Buenos Aires (Ingeniero Agrónomo) and the University of Kentucky (MSc and PhD).
Alejandro Gómez
× Alejandro Gómez is a Doctor in History from the Torcuato Di Tella University, Master of
Arts from
the University of Chicago, Master in Economics and Business Administration from ESEADE and a Professor of
History from
the University of Belgrano. He was a Fulbright Scholar for his master´s degree in the United States and a
Fulbright
Scholar in Residence at the College of Coastal Georgia. He is Professor of Economic History and of
Entrepreneurs and
Innovation at the UCEMA and Visiting Professor at the University Francisco Marroquín. Author of the books:
Creadores
de Riqueza, Reflexiones sobre la Historia Argentina, José del Valle: Político de la Independencia de
Centroamérica, La
Patria Americana de José del Valle y Juan Bautista Alberdi: Pilar del Progreso Argentino, among others. In
addition to
academic articles in national and international journals.
Matías Ilivitsky
×Analyst of politics and international relations issues. He currently teaches those
subjects at Universidad del CEMA and UCES. Matias Ilivitzky has a BA. in Political Science and a BA. in
Political Science Teaching, as well as a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from Universidad de Buenos Aires. He also
completed a postgraduate specialization course in Project Management at Universidad del CEMA. He received
two postgraduate scholarships from the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina,
and was a lecturer and researcher at Universidad de Buenos Aires and Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Author
of the book "From radical evil to the banality of evil" (Editorial Teseo) and of various research papers and
opinion pieces.
Martín Krause
×Martín Krause is Ph.D. in Administration from the Catholic University of La Plata,
Argentina. He is
full professor of Economics at the Faculty of Law of the UBA and of Economic History at the Faculty of
Economic
Sciences of the same university. He is visiting professor at the Francisco Marroquin University and the
OMMA-Ayau in
Madrid. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, researcher at the Cato Institute, member of the Academic
Council
of the Freedom and Progress Foundation and professor at UCEMA. He has received numerous honors such as the
Eisenhower
Exchange Fellowships and the Freedom Project of the John Templeton Foundation. Has published several books
such as
Borges y la Economía (Madrid: Unión Editorial, 2021); El Foro y el Bazar (UFM, 2014); Economía,
Instituciones y
Políticas Públicas (La Ley, 2011); Elementos de Economía Política (La Ley, 2007, with Adrián Ravier and
Gabriel
Zanotti); Por el Ojo de una Aguja; Ética, negocios y dinero en el mundo de hoy; La Economía explicada a mis
hijos;
Análisis Económico del Derecho: Aplicación a Fallos Judiciales; Economía para emprendedores; El cuento de la
Economía;
En Defensa de los Más Necesitados and Proyectos por una Sociedad Abierta (with Alberto Benegas Lynch h)
among others.
Juan Sebastián Landoni
× Juan Sebastián Landoni has a degree in Economics from the National University of
Rosario, a Ph.D.
in Economics from ESEADE and a Master's degree in Economics and Administration from ESEADE. He is a
professor at UCA,
at the Rosario Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Argentine Catholic University; at the Business School of
the
Francisco Marroquín University, Guatemala; at Tulane University; at the National University of Rosario; at
the OMMA in
Madrid; at the Swiss Management Center in Switzerland and Corporate Training in Argentina; and Co-director
of the
Master in Economics of the Business School of the Francisco Marroquín University of Guatemala, together with
the OMMA
Institute of Madrid, Spain, since 2014 (virtual format). He was director of the Master in Economics at the
Francisco
Marroquín University Business School, Guatemala, from 2010 to 2013 (virtual format). He is a researcher at
the UFM and
was a researcher at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Catholic University of Rosario. He has published
the
following books “Empresario Institucional” and “Pagan los pobres. Consecuencias negativas de políticas
públicas con
buenas (y malas) intenciones”, co-authored with Luciano Villegas. Has published articles in
books/compilations “Las
posibilidades de desarrollo: entre las instituciones informales y el conjunto intersección con las
instituciones
formales”, “La relevancia de la tasa de interés en la teoría económica. Consideraciones de Juan Carlos
Cachanosky”,
“Función empresarial: entre ignoracia y libertad”, the prologue to the book “Introducción a la Escuela
Austríaca de
Economía” by Gabriel Zanotti, “Una aproximación entre proceso de mercado y redes”, “El empresario como
fuerza motriz
del proceso económico en la historia del pensamiento económico”, “Empresario y competencia: un análisis de
la
empresarialidad desde el valor de las instituciones”. He was speaker and member of the Academic Committee of
all the
editions of the International Congress "La Escuela Austríaca de Economía en el Siglo XXI"; participated in
the chair
Cátedra Hayek of the Universidad Sergio Arboleda, Bogotá, Colombia, in 2013; lecturer at the Doctoral
Residence on
“Competencia – Innovación – Empresarialidad”, in Buenos Aires, in 2011; lecturer in the course “Introducción
a los
pensadores clásicos de la libertad”, together with Walter Castro, Marcelo Tacconi and Rafael Beltramino, in
2009;
lecturer in the Cycle “Principales escuelas del pensamiento económico” together with Rafael Beltramino,
Walter Castro
and Guillermo Covernton, in 2008; among others. Has participated in several editions of the Liberty Fund
International
Coloquium and the Rogelio Pontón Chair and Seminar 2019 and 2018, among other activities.
Daniel Lema
× Daniel Lema has a degree in Economics, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata and a Ph.D.
in Economics in UCEMA. He works as a researcher at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA)
and as a professor at UCEMA. He has done consulting work for the IDB and FAO. He serves as a member of the
Advisory Committee of the Common Fund for Commodities. He has published extensively in national and foreign
magazines on the topics of technological change and productivity in the agricultural sector, production
efficiency,agrarian economy, and political economy. He won five times the award for the best work from the
Argentine Association of Agrarian Economics. He was also selected as a finalist for the Outstanding Research
on Development Medal from the Global Development Network (www.gdnet.org). In UCEMA, he works as a professor
of the subject Management in Agribusiness.
Osvaldo Meloni
× Osvaldo Meloni was born in San Miguel de Tucumán. He obtained a Bachelor´s degree in
Economics at
the National University of Tucumán (UNT), a Master´s degree in Economics from the Center of Macroeconomic
Studies of
Argentina (CEMA), a Master of Arts (Economics) from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in
U.S.A. and a
Ph.D. in Economics from the University of San Andrés. He is full professor of the Chair of Industrial
Economics (UNT).
He taught undergraduate and graduate courses at various universities inn the country. He was Director of
Research
Programs of the Tucuman Foundation, consultant to the IDBA and World Bank and Director of the Institute of
Economic
Research of the UNT. He obtained an honorable mention in the competition of the Association of Argentine
Banks in
1990, the First Prize "Fulvio S. Pagani" in the competition of the ARCOR Foundation in 1999 and the
Centennial Prize
of the National Academy of Economic Science 2014. He is author of the books Análisis Económico de las
Políticas de
Prevención y Represión del Delito en Argentina (with Ana María Cerro) and Historia Económica de las Regiones
Argentinas (with Bandieri, Coria López, Dabus, Llach, Rosales and Visintini). He is also the compiler of the
books
Progresos en Economía Política de la Política Fiscal, Investigaciones sobre Economía de la Delincuencia
(with Ana
María Cerro), Incentivos perversos, gobernantes oportunistas y votantes racionales (with José Bercoff). He
has
published articles in international journals among which stand out the Journal of Iberian and Latin American
Economic
History, Economics of Governance, Research in Economic History, Economics & Politics, International Review
of Law and
Economics, Public Finance and Management, Journal of Applied Economics and Economics Letters.
Adrián Ravier
×Bachelor in Economics from the National University of Buenos Aires; Master in Economics
and
Business Administration from ESEADE (2004); and Ph.D. in Applied Economics from theRey Juan Carlos
University of
Madrid (2009). In an effort to expand the ideas of the Scotch and Classical School, the Austrian School, the
School of
Public Choice and the New Institutional Economics he has been at various universities in Argentina such as
UBA UBA,
ESEADE, USAL, UCES, UCA and UNSTA. At present he teaches in the Faculty of Economic and Legal Sciences, and
also at
the Faculty of Agronomy of the National University of La Pampa (UNLPAM, Argentina), and in postgraduate in
the Master
Program in Economics at UFM (Guatemala) and OMMA (Madrid) and in the Master in Economics and Political
Sciences and in
the Business Administration at ESEADE. His work “La globalización y la paz” (Globalization and Peace) was
awarded with
the first prize of the Hayek Essay Contest of the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) in 2006. He regularly publishes
academic
essays in English and in Spanish in specialized journals of the United States, Australia, Spain, Argentina,
Colombia,
Mexico and Guatemala; and collaborates with Infobae, El Cronista and the Cato Institute. He is author of “En
busca del
pleno empleo” (Unión Editorial 2010); is co-author of the book “Elementos de Economía Política” (Editorial
La Ley) and
between 2011 and 2013 he published a compilation of 60 interviews to distinguished economists in three
volumes, with
the title "La Escuela Austriaca desde Adentro (Unión Editorial, Madrid).
Sybil Rhodes
×Sybil Rhodes (PhD in Political Science, Stanford University, 2002) is chair of the
Department of
Political Science and International Relations at the Universidad del CEMA in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She
also serves
as President of the Center for Openness and Development in Latin America (CADAL) in the same city. Her areas
of
expertise include the politics of international public policy and multilateral cooperation, particularly in
the policy
arenas of migration, infrastructure, and economic regulation. She is the author of Social Movements and
Free-Market
Capitalism in Latin America (State University of New York Press) and various professional articles and book
chapters.
Carlos Rodríguez Braun
×Carlos Rodríguez Braun (Buenos Aires, 1948) is a retired academic of History of Economic
Thought in
the Complutense University of Madrid, and corresponding academic of the National Academy of Economic
Sciences of
Argentina. He has a doctorate in Economic Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid and is a
Bachelor in
Economics from the UCA. He has published articles in specialized journals, and is author of more than twenty
books.
Member ov various academic associations, he is evaluator and forms part of the advisory boards of scientific
publications in Spain and other countries. He is a reference and creator of opinion on social, political and
economic
reality, as well as a defender of globalization and liberalism. In his journalistic facet, positions that
stand out
are that of director of España Económica and subdirector of Cambio 16 and of the television broadcast
program El Valor
del Dinero de La2. He is currently a columnist for La Razón, Expansión, Libertad Digital and he is a daily
participant
in Onda Cero Radio. He has published articles in prestigious journals such as History of Political Economy,
American
Journal of Economics and Sociology, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought or the Journal des
Économistes
et des Études Humaines. He is also author of about twenty books and translator of figures o economic science
like Adam
Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich A. von Hayek. With forty years of
academic
and professional career, he has received various awards for his work, like the Honor Award from the Centro
Diego de
Covarrubias (2018), the Juan de Mariana (2013), the Labor Divulgativa Ejemplar award (Red Know Square,
2013), Libre
Empresa (Fundación Rafael del Pino, 2010) , the 1.812 (Club Liberal 1812, 2009) and the Award School of
Salamanca (El
Club de los Viernes, 2020)
Ayelén Sánchez
× M. Ayelen Sanchez has a degree in Philosophy, in the area of Logic and Philosophy of
Science, and
holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy (Universidad Nacional del Sur). Her primary areas of research are philosophy of
action,
philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and also epistemology and cognitive psychology. At present, she
is
carrying out a research into rational human action as a postdoctoral fellow (CONICET) at The Institute of
Economic and
Social Research of the South (IEESS). Currently, she works as an assistant professor of History of Modern
Philosophy
(Philosophy, UNS) and Fundaments of Management Sciences (Management Sciences, UNS). She taught Epistemology
and Logic
and argumentation (Psychology, UNISAL). She got scholarships from the Oxford Templeton Program and from the
AUIP
foundation to do research stays at Innsbruck University (Austria) and the University of Granada (Spain),
respectively.
Also, she has attended national and international interdisciplinary congress, meetings, and workshops.
Jorge M. Streb
×Jorge Miguel Streb is Director of Research at Ucema. He has a BA in Economics from UBA,
and a Ph.D.
in Economics from U.C., Berkeley. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on political economy and on
the
history of economic and social thought. He has experience as a professor at other institutions in Argentina
(UCA, UBA,
IDES, UdeSA, UTDT, UNT, UNSL, UNLP) and abroad (Universidad del Pacífico, INSPER, Universidade de Brasilia).
He was
President of the Argentine Association of Political Economy between 2018 and 2020. He has served as Editor
in Chief of
the Journal of Applied Economics since 2020, having started as a member of the Board in 2001. His research
interests
include political economy and institutions, as well as information economics and games with signaling. He
has
published papers on these topics in national and international academic journals.
Edgardo Zablotsky
×Edgardo Zablotsky holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. He is
President and
full Professor of the University of CEMA, member of the National Academy of Education, the Mont Pelerin
Society, and
of the Academic Boards of Fundación Libertad y Progreso, Fundación Atlas (Argentina), and Fundación Acton
(Argentina).
Zablotsky is a distinguished consultant and lecturer in public policy in the educational area; he focuses
his interest
in two fields of research: non welfare philanthropy and school choice.
Gabriel Zanotti
×Gabriel J. Zanotti was born on April 13, 1960. He is Professor and Graduate in Philosophy
from the
Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino (UNSTA - Northern University Santo Tomas de Aquino) and Doctor
in
Philosophy from the Catholic University of Argentina. He is Professor at the Faculty of Communication of the
Austral
University, undergraduate and graduate professor at the University of CEMA, Academic Director of Acton
Argentina
Institute and visiting professor of the University Francisco Marroquin of Guatemala. He has published :
Economía de
Mercado y Doctrina Social de la Iglesia ; Popper: búsqueda con esperanza ; Hacia una hermenèutica realista;
Comentario
a la Suma Contra Gentiles; Judeocristianismo, Civilización Occidental y Libertad.
Eugenio Giolito
×Eugenio Giolito is an Economics Professor at UCEMA. He is a professional Public
Accountant (Universidad Nacional de
Rosario), a Masters in Economics from UCEMA, and holds a Ph.D in Economics (University of Maryland, College
Park).
Previously, he also was a professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Universidad Alberto Hurtado in
Chile. His
research interests focus on Applied Microeconomics and Development Economics. His papers have been published
in Journal
of Labor Economics, International Economic Review y Journal of Health Economics, among others
Wenceslao Giménez Bonet
×PhD in Economics and Business (Universidad de Navarra), BA in Economics (Universidad de
Buenos Aires). He currently is
director of CMT Group, editor of journal Libertas Segunda Época, as well as a participant of Liberty Fund
colloquia and
thesis juries. Additionally, he is involved in agribusiness. Previously, he was Academic Vice-Dean at UCAECE
in
Argentina, Dean of the Economic Sciences Faculty at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala, and
University
professor at ESEADE Argentina, UFM in Guatemala, and SMC in Switzerland.
José Antonio Aguilar Rivera
×Mexican writer, researcher and academic. Aguilar Rivera holds a degree in International
Relations
from El Colegio de México (Colmex). Master and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago.
Professor
and researcher in the Political Studies Division of the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE),
from México.
He has written books and articles on Political Theory and the Constitutional and Political History of Mexico
and Latin
America. He has also published works on intellectuals and the debate around multiculturalism in Mexico and
the United
States. In, 1995 he obtained the prize Carlos Pereyra for Political Essay (Premio Carlos Pereyra de Ensayo
Político)
Peter Boettke
×Peter Boettke is a University Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason
University, the
BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, and the Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Is a member and a
former president of Mont Pelerin Society. As a teacher, Boettke is
dedicated to cultivating enthusiasm for the economic way of thinking and the importance of economic ideas in
future
generations of scholars and citizens. He is also now the co-author, along with David Prychitko, of the
classic
principles of economics texts of Paul Heyne's The Economic Way of Thinking (12th Edition, Prentice Hall,
2009). His
efforts in the classroom have earned him a number of distinctions including the Golden Dozen Award for
Excellence in
Teaching from the College of Arts and Sciences at New York University and the George Mason University Alumni
Association's 2009 Faculty Member of the Year award. He is the author of “Living Economics: Yesterday, Today
and
Tomorrow” (2013), “The Economic Way of Thinking, (with Paul Heyne [original author] and David Prychitko,
preface by
Douglass North (2002), “The Battle of Ideas: Economics and the Struggle for a Better World” (2007), among
other books.
Alejandro Chafuen
×Alejandro Chafuen is Managing Director International de Acton US, and has an outstanding
career in
the world of ideas, having served as CEO and President Atlas Network from 1991 to 2018. He is president and
founder of
the Hispanic American Center of Economic Research; columnist of Forbes; member of the board of directors of
the Fraser
Institute, of Canada, member of the Mont Pelerin Society since 1980, and president of the Philadelphia
Society
(2017-2018). He is recognized worldwide for his studies on economic thought of the Thomists and the
Scholastics. He is
a graduate of Grove City College and UCA, has a Ph.D. in Economics from the International College of
California.
Edwin J. Feulner
×Dr. Edwin J. Feulner has served as the President of The Heritage Foundation since 1977.
He was a
founding Trustee of Heritage in 1973. As a result of Ed’s vision and leadership, The Heritage Foundation has
grown
from a nine-person policy shop in rented office space to what the New York Times has called “the beast of
[all think
tanks], the almost mythical Heritage Foundation…the Parthenon of the conservative metropolis.” Presidents,
Vice
Presidents, Senators, Congressmen, Governors, Ambassadors and other public figures have worked directly with
Ed
Feulner and The Heritage Foundation to implement effective public policies based on the principles
articulated in
Heritage’s mission statement: free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American
values,
and a strong national defense. In 1989, President Reagan honored Dr. Feulner by awarding him the
Presidential Citizens
Medal for his work as “a leader of the conservative movement”. Dr. Feulner recently has been named one of
the “Seven
Most Powerful Conservatives in Washington” by Forbes magazine. He has served as the Chairman of the
Intercollegiate
Studies Institute and President of The Mont Pelerin Society and The Philadelphia Society, of which he is a
Distinguished Member. He is the Chairman of the Board of Visitors at Pepperdine University’s School of
Public Policy.
A syndicated columnist in dozens of newspapers across the country, Dr. Feulner is the author of many books,
including
Intellectual Pilgrims, Conservatives Stalk the House, Leadership for America, The March of Freedom, Getting
America
Right and, most recently, The American Spirit. He has received honorary degrees from a number of colleges
and
universities. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and his MBA from the Wharton
School of
the University of Pennsylvania, pursued further graduate studies at the London School of Economics and
Georgetown
University, and received his B.S. from Regis University.
Deidre McCloskey
×Deidre McCloskey is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and of History, and
Professor
Emerita of English and of Communication, adjunct in classics and philosophy, at the University of Illinois
at Chicago.
Trained at Harvard in the 1960s as an economist, she has written twenty-four books and some four hundred
academic and
popular articles on economic history, rhetoric, philosophy, statistical theory, economic theory, feminism,
queer
studies, liberalism, ethics, and law. She taught 1968–80 at the University of Chicago in the Economics
Department
during its glory days, but now describes herself as a “literary, quantitative, postmodern, free-market,
progressive-Episcopalian, ex-marxoid, Midwestern woman from Boston who was once a man. Not ‘conservative’!
I’m a
Christian classical liberal." She is well known for her 2019 “Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values
Produce a
Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All”, and her massive economic, historical, and literary trilogy
“The
Bourgeois Era” (2006, 2010, 2016), as well as for “The Rhetoric of Economics” (1985), “If You’re So Smart:
The
Narrative of Economic Expertise” (1990), “Crossing: A Memoir” (1999; 2019 with an Afterword), and with
Stephen Ziliak
“The Cult of Statistical Significance” (2008).
Gerald O’Driscoll
×Gerald O’Driscoll is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and
Financial
Alternatives. He is a widely quoted expert on international monetary and financial issues. Previously the
director of
the Center for International Trade and Economics at the Heritage Foundation, O’Driscoll was senior editor of
the
annual Index of Economic Freedom, copublished by Heritage and the Wall Street Journal. O’Driscoll has also
served as
vice president and director of policy analysis at Citigroup. Before that, he was vice president and economic
adviser
at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He also served as staff director of the congressionally mandated
Meltzer
Commission on international financial institutions. O’Driscoll has taught at the University of California,
Santa
Barbara; Iowa State University; and New York University. He is widely published in leading publications,
including the
Wall Street Journal. He appears frequently on national radio and television, including Fox Business News,
CNBC, and
Bloomberg. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society and is president of the Association of Private
Enterprise
Education. O’Driscoll holds a BA in economics from Fordham University and an MA and PhD in economics from
the
University of California, Los Angeles.
Sabrina Corbacho
× Sabrina Victoria Corbacho is a student of the Bachelor's Degree in Political Science at
Universidad del CEMA. There she co-founded and chairs the Political Science Club The Levellers. In addition,
she is
founder and leader of the Buenos Aires Chapter of the international NGO Ladies of Liberty Alliance. She
obtained a
Diploma in Human Security for Sustainable Development (UCEMA) and is an active member of the Fundación
Critera’s
Leadership Circle for Sustainable Development. Sabrina is part of an internship program at the consulting
firm Fara
Veggetti, developing tasks in the area of political analysis. She is an excellent native speaker of Spanish
and
German, and is fluent in English. Playing the violin and being a soccer player at the Claudio Marangoni
School are
some of her passions.
Alan del Re
×Student of the Bachelor of Economics at the University of CEMA, awarded a scholarship for
his
academic performance. He has experience in the use of Microsoft Office, Python and R. He has participated in
the
Argentine Mathematical Olympiad (OMA), the Argentine Physics Olympiad (OAF) and the Argentine Chemistry
Olympiad
(OAQ), obtaining national medals. He did a research work on the relationship between music and science. He
is fluent
in Spanish, English and German, with the First Certificate Exam (FCE) and Deutsches Sprachdiplom II (DSD II)
certifications. He served as a volunteer in the Argentine Bible Society and has participated in solidarity
initiatives
of the Hechos foundation. Pianist and lover of sports.
Tatiana Erjavec
×Tatiana Erjavec is a third-year student majoring in international relations at UCEMA. In
this
institution she has been awarded with a scholarship for academic merit and for being an active member in the
Slovenian
community in Argentina. At this university, she also works as a participant in the Levellers Political
Science club
and the debate club. Through them, she has participated in several activities, among which the participation
in the
Argentine university debate tournament stands out.
On several occasions she has also worked as a volunteer in the humanitarian NGO, Akamasoa Argentina, which aims to help low-income populations to achieve a much more dignified life through work and discipline. Finally, she can speck fluently languages such as Spanish, Slovenian and English and counts with international certifications such as the Cambridge First certificate and an advanced course in Slovenian offered by the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of Ljubljana that she has done in 2018.
On several occasions she has also worked as a volunteer in the humanitarian NGO, Akamasoa Argentina, which aims to help low-income populations to achieve a much more dignified life through work and discipline. Finally, she can speck fluently languages such as Spanish, Slovenian and English and counts with international certifications such as the Cambridge First certificate and an advanced course in Slovenian offered by the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of Ljubljana that she has done in 2018.
Tomás Faintich
×Tomás Faintich is attending his third year of the Economics degree in Ucema, where he
receives a
merit scholarship. He graduated with honors from ORT school, in Building Orientation, obtaining a master
builder
degree. He participated in a leadership and non formal education course in CISSAB and works as a group
leader at the
same place. Tomás has a good level of English and computer tools, such as Microsoft Office and ‘R’. He also
represented Argentina in the 2019 EMG (European Maccabi Games).
Brian Frojmowicz
×Brian Frojmowicz is a student of the Bachelor in Political Science and Government at the
University
of the Macroeconomic Center of Argentina (UCEMA). He is co-director of the Investigation Center of Israel
and the
Middle East (CIMO). His area of study is Philosophy and Political Theory with general orientation towards
all the
social sciences. In 2021 he published "Liberalismo Dialógico: una visión alternativa" (Dialogical
liberalism: an
alternative vision), through Unión Editorial. Brian also serves as a Fellow of the Department of Political
Science of
UCEMA, and as co-director of CIMO he organizes talks and training on the subject of the Arab-Israeli
conflict in
different locations of the Jewish community, educational institutions and non-profit institutions. He was
Top Regional
Leader 2018-2019 in SFL, Top Global Leader 2019-2020 in SFL and participated as special guest in the World
Forum
against Antisemitism (2020) organized by the International March of the Living.
Miriam Malament
×Miriam Malament is currently in the third year of her Economics degree in the University
of CEMA
with an outstanding academic performance for which she has been awarded an honorary scholarship in the
University
since 2019. Having been educated in both, Australia and Argentina, she has finished her secondary school in
the
Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, where she was among the highest grades of her graduating class. She is a
native
Spanish and English speaker, having passed the Proficiency exam of the University of Cambridge.
Additionally, she has
an intermediate level of French and Hebrew. With a strong inclination towards Mathematics and its
application in
Economics, she has participated from an early age in advanced instances of Mathematical Olympiads.
Furthermore, she is
proficient in programming languages such as R, Python and Matlab. Her interest in the History of Economics
Thought has
prompted her to participate in seminars of Austrian School of Economics. In her free time, she enjoys
practicing
artistic gymnastics, reading and writing
Augusto Mamone
×
Third-year student of the Bachelor of Economics at Universidad del Cema. Scholarship granted by Santader
(2020) and
UCEMA (2019-2021) in the concept of academic performance. Courses received in stock market (University of
Buenos
Aires,2018) and data analysis (Bond University, 2020). International Certificate of education with merit
(Cambridge,
2017).
Pamela Morales Jourdan
×
Pamela Morales Jourdan is a third-year student of the Bachelor of Economics at CEMA University. She works
for the
Fundación Libertad, in the communication department. There she also participated as a research assistant in
the SEL
Observatory, a project carried out during 2020 to monitor the evolution of the pandemic in the Argentina's
provinces,
but also measuring the degree of respect for freedom and the economic indicators. She participated as a
volunteer in the
Fundación Club de la Libertad, collaborating with the promotion of its activities, as well as serving in
leadership
roles in NGOs, mainly in Lions International. She handles data analysis tools, such as pyhton and R, and is
currently
studying a training course in Data Science from the Fundación Libertad Business School.
José Manuel Rodriguez
×He is Venezuelan, resident of the Republic of Argentina since 2018. He was awarded the
Simon
Bolivar Scholarship at the Universidad del CEMA, where he is in his last year of his Bachelor's Degree in
Political Science. In this same institution he is founder and president of The Levellers Club of Political
Science. He has different trainings in team leadership, project management and analysis of public affairs,
by different
entities such as Atlas Network (USA), Friedrich Naumann Foundation (Germany) and the Government of the City
of
Buenos Aires. He is currently an intern in the Public Affairs team at Agora Public Affairs & Strategic
Communications. He is also part of the professional development team at Fundación Federalismo y Libertad
(Argentina). He was winner of the first edition of the Latin American Liberal Network Essay Contest. He
writes regular opinion
columns for Diario Perfil and La Gaceta.
Joaquín Rubio
×Joaquín Rubio is a third-year student of the Bachelor of Economics at the University of
CEMA. He
has been awarded a scholarship by the University (“Beca Abanderados Escoltas”), which he still
maintainstoday due to
his good academic performance, as well as by Santander (2021). Also, he speaks Spanish (native) and English
(certificated B2 level) fluently. His research focuses mainly on the understanding of spontaneous
institutions and
processes, not consciously designed by man, that make possible the decentralized coordination of free
individuals in
the extended social order; particularly, in how free monetary and banking institutions could lead to greater
coordination and economic stability than a centralized monetary and banking system (such as current Central
Banking
systems). He therefore considers it highly relevant to have a multidisciplinary approach when dealing with
social
phenomena.
Ignacio Savanti
×
Student of the degree in Economics at CEMA University. He has knowledge of the Microsoft Office package,
Python, LaTeX
and R, thanks to having been trained through courses on virtual platforms and the career courses. He speaks
fluid
Spanish and English. He has taken and passed with high marks the IB, First Certificate and TOEFL iBT. He has
written
essays on themes of economic history and history of economic thought that have scored highest in his class.
He works as
a fellow in the UCEMA Communication Department and participates weekly in a group called Olla Solidaria
(solidarity
pot), with which he goes out to distribute food and participate in a talk with people living in the street
in the
Recoleta neighborhood, in the city of Buenos Aires. With this same group he has gone to build a house for a
woman
through the organization TECHO (roof). The house was financed by Olla Solidaria, which raised the money for
this
purpose.
Lucas Sica
×
Lucas Sica is a third year undergraduate student of Economics at Universidad del CEMA. He has experience in
the use of
computational tools for the estimation of econometric models and has completed several courses in Python and
R. Also, he
worked on the impact of monetary policy in crisis and his main research topics are the role of money and the
Austrian
school of economics. He is fluent in English and has basic knowledge of French. He is also a collaborator at
the
Francoise Dolto Institute of Special Education.
Raul Villarreal Dominguez
×Raúl Villarreal Dominguez is an advanced student of the Degree in Philosophy at the
National
University of the South (UNS). He worked as a Student Assistant of Fundamentals of Management Sciences
(Department of
Management Sciences). He is a member of the General Research Project on Jorge Luis Borges, and he has
attended several
congresses and meetings. His primary research interests are focused on theoretical-practical philosophy,
Ethics,
Bioethics, and philosophy of culture. Also, his interest in the Chinese culture, and its relationship with
the western
world, has led him to study his language and make two trips to the Asian country.
Santiago Wenceblat
×
Majoring in the International Relations undergraduate program at UCEMA, having been awarded a full
scholarship for being
chosen to represent Argentina at The Hague International Model United Nations. He is Co-Founder and Leader
of the UCEMA
Debate Club, and member of the Commission of University Debate at the Argentina Debating Association. He has
taken
courses in diverse areas such as digital transformation, marketing, artificial intelligence and public
affairs, for
institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Buenos Aires City Government. He was
secretary
general of the first Model United Nations of UCEMA, in 2019 and 2020, and has interviewed multiple prominent
personalities for both the Debate Club and Political Science Club of the aformentioned institution.
Maximiliano Ivickas Magallán
×PhD in Social Sciences (UNQ). Master (cand.) in AgroBusiness (UCEMA). BA in Social
Sciences (UNQ). Specialist in issues
related to the politics and history of agrobusiness in the Pampas in the 20th century. Research Coordinator
at UCEMA.
Professor at UCEMA. PhD scholarship recipient from the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research
of
Argentina (CONICET).
Ricardo Manuel Rojas
×Lawyer. PhD in Economic History (ESEADE, Argentina). Was Legal Secretary to the Supreme
Court of Justice (1986-1993),
Criminal Judge in Buenos Aires (1993-2008, 2011-present). Professor in diverse universities in Argentina.
Visiting
professor in Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brasil, Perú, Ecuador, Venezuela, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Italy, Spain,
Turkey and the United States.