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This panel will discuss Javier Milei's presidency focusing on his reform initiative, Argentina's institutions, and more.
Speakers: Carla Yumatle, Professor of Political Theory, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Federico Sturzenegger, Full Professor of Economics and Business, Universidad de San Andrés, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Advisor to President Milei. Sebastián Etchemendy, Associate Professor and Researcher in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, Torcuato Di Tella University. Roberto Gargarella, Senior Researcher at CONICET Argentina; Visiting Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona.
Moderated by Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Carla Yumatle teaches political theory at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. She earned her PhD in Political Science from University of California, Berkeley and a Masters from London School of Economics. She did her postdoctoral research at Brown University in the Political Theory Project. She published on liberalism, pluralism and human rights and co-edited two volumes on rethinking USA and Latin America relations from the perspective of civil society (forthcoming). She is currently working on different projects on the erosion of democracy, populism and human rights.
Federico Sturzenegger is Full Professor of Economics and Business at Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Advisor to President Milei and Honoris Causa Professor at HEC, Paris. He holds a PhD in Economics from MIT (1991), was Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA (1991-1995), Chief Economist at YPF (1995-1998), Dean of the Di Tella Business School (1998-2000 / 2002 -2005), Secretary of Economic Policy of the Republic of Argentina (2001), visiting professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (2005-2007), President of Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires (2008-2013 ), Deputy of the Nation (2013-2015) and President of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (2015-2018).
Sebastián Etchemendy is an Associate Professor and researcher at the Torcuato Di Tella University, Department of Political Science and International Studies, Argentina, and also a Senior Researcher at the National Scientific Council (CONICET). He has a degree in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires. He received his PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in the comparative political economy of Latin America and Western Europe. In particular, he has studied the determinants and political consequences of the processes of economic liberalization and internationalization, with special attention to the analysis of business and labor actors. In 2007 he served as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University, and in 2022 was Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor at Harvard. He has worked on the political economy of countries such as Argentina, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, Chile, and others. He has published singleauthored articles in Comparative Political Studies (2), Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics and Society (2), and the Journal of Latin American Studies, and coauthored in Politics & Society and Desarrollo Económico. He also published Models of Economic Liberalization: Business, Workers and Compensation in Latin America, Spain and Portugal (Cambridge University Press 2011, EUDEBA 2015) and Labor Outsourcing in Argentina: Diagnosis and Trade Union Strategies (in Spanish, coauthor and editor, Biblos 2018), as well as in many edited volumes.
Roberto Gargarella has a Doctor in Law from the Univ. Buenos Aires 1991; LLM & Jurisprudence Doctor 1992/1993 Univ. Chicago. Gargarella received a John Simon Guggenheim Scholarship and a Harry Frank Guggenheim Schoarlaship. Gargarella is a Senior Researcher at CONICET Argentina and Visiting Professor at Univ. Pompeu Fabra Barcelona. He is also a former DRCLAS scholar.
Steven Levitsky is the David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard. His research focuses on democratization and authoritarianism, political parties, and weak and informal institutions, with a focus on Latin America. He is co-author (with Daniel Ziblatt) of How Democracies Die, which was a New York Times Best-Seller and was published in 25 languages. He has written or edited 12 other books, including Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press 2003), Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War (with Lucan Way) (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (with Lucan Way) (Princeton University Press, 2022), and Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point (with Daniel Ziblatt) (Crown Publishers, 2023). He and Lucan Way are currently working on a book on democratic resilience across the world.
This event will be in English with Spanish interpretation for Zoom users only.
Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.