Date: Thursday 9 June 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Thai Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Luis Alberto Arce Catacora, Rene Orellana Halkyer
Chair: Dr Álvaro Méndez

Minister Arce will be explaining the key economic policies of the Productive Communitarian Social Economic Model that has been applied in Bolivia since 2006, which led the country to experience one of its most successful and sustained cycles of economic growth, and to successfully navigate the current regional recession. He will put emphasis on the importance of public investment in the most vulnerable sectors of society for inclusive development.

Minister Orellana will speak about the ways in which the Global South has exercised leadership influencing the vital debates about the sustainable development path in which the international community has embarked on.

Luis Alberto Arce Catacora, is the head of the Ministry of Economy and Public Finances from the Plurinational State of Bolivia for more than ten consecutive years, since the beginning of Evo Morales Ayma ‘s government. Minister Arce holds a bachelor degree in economics, obtained at Universidad Mayor de San Andres, in La Paz. He received an MD in Economic Sciences from Warwick University in England, where he lived between 1996 and 1997.

Rene Orellana Halkyer, is the Minister of Development Planning from the Plurinational State of Bolivia. Minister Orellana is a Sociologist and Holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam. He was the head of the Bolivian delegation to the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th UN conferences on Climate change and he participated in the historical COP-21 agreement reached in Paris, last December. He was member of the Working Group on the United Nations framework for the elaboration of Sustainable Development Goals (2013-2014).

Dr Mendez is the co-founder of the LSE Global South Unit. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the LSE; Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Regent’s University London; Research Associate, University of Bristol; and a former editor of Millennium-Journal of International Studies at the LSE. Dr. Mendez has also taught at the University of Shanghai, the Singapore Institute of Management, and Universidad del Pacifico in Lima, Peru. He also won the 2003-2004 Departmental Teaching Prize in recognition of his contribution to teaching in International Relations at the LSE. He is the co-author of UN Security Council Reform and the Challenge of South Representation (SAIIA 2009). He is also the creator and unit owner of the Politics of Latin America seminar at the School of Sociology, Politics, and International Studies (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol, an advanced studies module specifically designed to raise the profile of Latin America in the field of International Relations in the UK. He is regularly called upon to contribute his insights in research conferences and by the press on the emergence of Latin America as an important actor in world politics. A monograph about US Foreign Policy in Latin America is forthcoming in 2016 with Routledge. He is currently co-authoring with Professor Alden a major study on the foreign relations of Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Mexico with China.

The Global South Unit (GSU) (@LSE_Globalsouth) is a research and teaching initiative based in the International Relations Department of the LSE. It is a decentralised ideas hub aimed at investigating the changing role of the South in shaping the global order. The unit was co-founded by Professor Chris Alden and Dr. Alvaro Mendez from the International Relations Department. We aspire to lead the debate through our research, analysis and innovative ideas. Our network of academics, practitioners, policy-makers and business leaders are active proponents of new ideas and thinking about the Global South.

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