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Director
OECD Chief Development Economist
Chair of the OECD Emerging Markets Network (EmNet)
Mr Javier Santiso has been appointed Director of the OECD Development Centre, effective 1st February 2008.
Phone: +33 1 45 24 8290
Javier.Santiso@oecd.org
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Biography
Mr. Santiso, who holds both French and Spanish nationalities, joined the OECD on 1st December 2005 as Chief Development Economist and Deputy Director of the Development Centre. He has been the Centre’s Acting Director since July 2007.
He began his career in 1995 at the Latin American Centre, University of Oxford. Tenured as Research Fellow at the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), he also served as a Senior Expert Associate on Latin American Emerging Markets for Crédit Agricole Indosuez (now Calyon) before becoming, in 2002, Chief Economist for Latin America and Emerging Markets at the Economic Research Department of Madrid-based Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) where he managed a team of 50 economists spread in 9 different countries.
Member of the editorial commitee of Problèmes d’Amérique latine, Mr Santiso is the author of over 60 articles on international economy. Published in leading academic reviews, they have primarily focused on developing and emerging economies. His most recent published book is entitled "Latin America’s Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free Marketeers”, Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, 2006 "(also published in French, “Amérique latine: révolutionnaire, libérale, pragmatique”, Paris, Autrement, 2005). He contributes regularly to international newspapers like Le Monde (France), Expansion (Spain), America Economia (Latin America) and Valor Economico (Brazil). He also contributes regularly to online newswire like Telos and InfoLatam.
Mr Santiso holds BA, MA and PhD degrees from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and finished his doctoral studies in international political economy at St Anthony’s College, Oxford University. He also holds an MBA from HEC School of Management (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales) in France, and an Executive MBA from IESE Business School (Executive Corporate Program for Business Leaders) in Spain.
Publications:
> Books and Studies
> Working Papers & Policy Insights
> Articles in journals and in the media
> Presentations
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