Javier Santiso
Javier Santiso is an influential political economist who has authored several books on Latin America's development. Among his most important contributions were two simple but intellectually powerful schemata. The first describes the three basic possible responses to decline in firms or polities: loyalty, voice and exit. The second describes the basic arguments made by conservatives: perversity, futility and jeopardy. He is now the Chief Development Economist and Deputy Director of the OECD Development Centre.
Santiso, who is French and Spanish, holds BA, MA and PhD degrees from Sciences Po and an MBA degree from HEC School of Management. From 1995 to 1997 he was Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Latin American Centre (University of Oxford) where he finished his PhD.
He has been visiting Professor in Latin American Political Economy at [[The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies]] - Johns Hopkins University. He also lectured in International Political Economy at Sciences Po and in European Corporate Strategies in Latin America at HEC School of Management. From 2002 to 2005 he has been Chief Economist for Latin America and Emerging Markets of the Economic Research Department of BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria). He sits at the advisory council of CILAE (Centro de Investigación Latinoamérica Europa)and is now the Chief Development Economist and Deputy Director of the OECD Development Centre.
Books
- Amérique latine. Révolutionnaire, libérale, pragmatique, Paris, Autrement, 2005.
- The political economy of emerging markets: actors, institutions and crisis in Latin America, New York / London, Palgrave, 2003.
- Les puissances émergentes d'Amérique latine. Argentine, Brésil, Chili, Mexique, Paris, Armand Colin, 1999 (with Alain Musset, Hervé Théry and Sébastien Velut).
- Tiempo y democracia, Caracas, Nueva Sociedad, 1999 (co-edited with Andreas Schedler).