In this session we will discuss with Cambridge PhD and current Professor Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid over the macroeconomic themes and policy consequences which have been highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America.

Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid is a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a member of Mexico’s National Research System. He was Deputy Director/ Research Coordinator at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC-Mexico) and was as Research Associate at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University.

Moreno-Brid is also a founding member of the World Economic Association, the second largest association of economists, with more than 16,000 members worldwide. Speaker/consultant international venues, and member of Grupo Nuevo Curso de Desarrollo, UNAM; International Development Economics Associates (IDEAS), and Trinity College Cambridge University.

Author of several articles and books, his fields of expertise are development and economic growth in Latin America. Some of his recent books are Panorama Reciente de las Políticas de Desarrollo Productivo en Mexico (ILO, 2018), Cambio estructural y crecimiento en Centroamérica (ECLAC, 2014) and Development ,and Growth in the Mexican Economy: a historical perspective (Oxford University Press, 2009).