Dr Fernando Rugitsky

• Qualifications:PhD
• Position:Senior Lecturer - Economics
• Department:FBL - Accounting, Economics and Finance
• Telephone:+441179656261
• Email:Fernando.Rugitsky@uwe.ac.uk
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About me

Senior Lecturer in Economics and Programme Leader of the BA/BSc Economics

My research focuses on the recent development experiences of Latin American economies, examined from a perspective that brings together insights from political economy, Latin structuralism and Kaleckian macroeconomics. I am interested in understanding the trajectory of inequalities in the region, the prospects for inclusive development, and the impacts of climate change and climate policies, analysing the lessons from the strategies implemented since the early 2000s.

Before joining UWE, I was a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at the Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil) between 2015 and 2021, and I spent 2020 as a Visiting Scholar at the Centre of Latin American Studies of the University of Cambridge. I obtained a PhD in Economics from The New School of Social Research (US) in 2014, and I have an MSc and two BScs (in Economics and in Law) from the Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil).

My work has been published in journals like the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Development and Change, the Review of Radical Political Economics, and the Review of Political Economy. I also published chapters in books edited by the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and edited three books in Portuguese.  In 2018, I received an honorable mention in an international essay contest promoted by ECLAC.

I've been pursuing my research within active networks of research collaboration, in projects funded by the ILO and Horizon (EU). My current research activities involve collaboration with a series of EU and Turkish institutions (in the Horizon project) and also engagement with colleagues in Latin American, African and Asian institutions, in the context of my participation in the Global South Political Economy network (a group within the Emerging Political Economies network), alongside colleagues from the Center of Critical Imagination at the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning.

Area of expertise

Development, Climate Change, Political Economy, Latin America, Inequalities, Macroeconomics

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