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Alberto Fuentes

alberto.fuentes@inta.gatech.edu

781 Marietta St. NW, Office 316

Atlanta GA 30332

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Assistant Professor of Global Development, 2016-Present, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and School of City and Regional Planning


EDUCATION

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)

Ph.D., 2014, Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), Sloan School of Management

Dissertation: Apostles of Development and Consular Brigadiers: Ideologies, professions and agro-industrial transformations in Central America

Committee: Richard Locke and Ben Schneider (co-chairs), Michael Piore and Matthew Amengual

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)

Master of City Planning, 2007, with a focus in International Development and Regional Planning

Thesis: A Light in the Dark: Labor Reform in Guatemala during the FRG Administration, 2000 – 2004

Committee: Judith Tendler (chair), Andrew Schrank

YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, Connecticut

Bachelor of Arts, Economics, 2004


FELLOWSHIPS

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Georgia Tech), Atlanta, Georgia

Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2014-2016, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs


RESEARCH

Journal Publications (peer reviewed)

“Spurred to Upgrade: A Review of Triggers and Consequences of Industrial Upgrading in the Global Value Chain Literature,” forthcoming in World Development  (with Seth Pipkin)

“Self-Discovery in The Dark: the demand side of industrial policy in Latin America.” Review of International Political Economy, 23(1), 2016. (with Seth Pipkin)

“A Vocation for Industrial Transformation: Ideology, Organizational Isomorphism and Upgrading in the Guatemalan Sugar Industry.”  Studies in Comparative International Development, 49(3), September 2014.

“La Discriminación y su relación con la diferencia de ingresos en el mercado laboral guatemalteco.” Perfiles Latinoamericanos, Número 27.  México: FLACSO; 2006.

Journal Manuscripts in Progress and Under Review

“Los Apóstoles del Desarrollo y la Modernización de la Industria Azucarera Guatemalteca.” (Under Review)

“The Divergent Institutional Logics of Industrial Change: A comparison of export-cheese processors in Nicaragua.” (Under Review)

“Developmental Professionals, Industrial Transformation and Mutual Gains in Nicaragua’s Cheese-Processing Industry.” (Under Review)

“From Templates to Results: Policy Models and Technological Learning in the Mexican and Brazilian Automotive and Petroleum Industries, 1975-2000.” (with Seth Pipkin) (Under Review)

Book Manuscript in Progress

Apostles and Revolutionary Intellectuals: Developmental Professionals and Industrial Transformation in Central America.

Publications (other)

United Nations Development Program. Informe Nacional de Desarrollo Humano 2007/2008: Guatemala: una economía ¿al servicio del desarrollo? Guatemala; 2008.

Fuentes, A. “Reseña de libro: John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946: Economist, philosopher, statesman.” ECO Revista Académica, Número 4. Guatemala: Universidad Rafael Landívar, 2009.


REFEREED PRESENTATIONS

“The Runner or the Course: Vulnerability and Policy Preferences in the Industrial Development of Brazil and Mexico.” (with Seth Pipkin), REPAL, Boston 2016.

“Capabilities and Compatibilities: Vulnerabilities and Policy Paradigms in the Industrial Development of Mexico and Brazil.” (with Seth Pipkin), SASE, Berkeley 2016.

“Spurred to Upgrade: A Review of Triggers of Change in the Global Value Chain Literature.” (with Seth Pipkin), SASE, London 2015.

“A Fork in the Upgrading Road: The Contrasting Ideologies and Business Models of the Nicaraguan Cheese Industry’s Industrial Transformation.” SASE, London 2015.

“Spilling Over or Pumping Out: Ideologies, Business Models, and the Divergent Firm-Stakeholder Outcomes of the Industrial Transformation in Nicaragua’s Cheese Industry.” ISA, Kansas City, 2015.

“Self-Discovery in The Dark: The Demand Side of Industrial Policy in Latin America” (with Seth Pipkin), SASE, Chicago 2014.


TEACHING

Undergraduate

INTA 2050. Introduction to Global Development (Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017).

INTA 4340/MGT 8803. Economics in Latin America, Study Abroad Program Argentina-Uruguay Summer 2017 (with Kirk Bowman, John McIntyre)

Graduate

INTA 6304/CP 8883. Modernization and Development (Fall 2016).


SERVICE

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Co-director of the Global Development Minor, 2016 – Present, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (UNDP), 2008 – 2009.

Economic Consultant for the National Human Development Report.

INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES ECONOMICAS Y SOCIALES (IDIES), UNIVERSIDAD RAFAEL LANDIVAR, 2007-2008.

Economic Researcher.

SECRETARIA DE PLANIFICACION Y PROGRAMACION DE LA PRESIDENCIA (SEGEPLAN), 2004 – 2005.

Consultant for Socio-Economic Studies.


FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Serve-Sustain-Learn, 2016. Grant to support the dissemination campaign of the Global Development Minor ($2,600) (with Neha Kumar and Jonathan Colton).

CIS Summer Study Grant, 2010. Research Grant to study the transformation of the Guatemalan sugar industry ($3,000).

Program on Human Rights and Justice, 2006. Research Grant to study the organizational changes in Guatemala’s Ministry of Labor ($2,000).

Rodwin Travel Fund, 2006. Research Grant to study the Guatemalan public transportation system ($1,000).


OTHER SKILLS

Languages: Native Spanish speaker.


ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS

Latin American Studies Association

The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning

American Sociological Association

Academy of Management

International Studies Association

American Political Science Association

Southeast Latin American Political Behavior (SeLAB) Consortium

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