may 01 2016
TThree distinguished personalities have joined the Jury of the Foundation Vidanta Prize "Contributions to the reduction of poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean". They are: Carol Graham, Juan Alberto Fuentes and Rolando Cordera.
Carol Graham. is the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a College Park professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and the author of numerous books, papers and edited volume chapters.
Graham has written extensively and is considered an expert on issues including poverty, inequality, insecurity, the political economy of market reforms, subjective well-being, and the economics of happiness. In Happiness around the World: the Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires (Oxford University Press, 2010, also published in Chinese, Portuguese, and Japanese), Graham explores what we know about the determinants of happiness across and within countries of different development levels, including some counterintuitive and surprising relationships. Her latest book, The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being (Brookings Institution Press, 2011, also published in Chinese and Japanese), examines what the new science and metrics of well-being can contribute to policy and, in particular, if they can serve as new benchmarks of economic progress.[1]
Over the course of her career, Graham’s research has received support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Tinker and Hewlett Foundations, and the National Institute of Aging. She recently served on a National Academy of Sciences Panel on well-being metrics and public policy,[2] and received a Distinguished Research Fellow Award from the International Society for Quality of Life Studies in September 2014.[3]
Juan Alberto Fuentes. is the chair of Oxfam International. He studied economics at the University of Toronto and gained a PhD from the University of Sussex. He was founder and director of the Central American Institute for Fiscal Studies (ICEFI) and in 2008 became Minister for Finance in Guatemala. He later became a Regional Advisor of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and in 2012 became Director of the Division of Economic Development at ECLAC in Santiago, Chile. He took up a professorship of International Economics at the Universidad Rafael Landivar in Guatemala and also works as an independent consultant of public finance, economic integration and political economy.
Rolando Cordera Campos. Professor Emeritus and Doctor Honoris Causa by the Autonomous Metropolitan University. Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Economics, UNAM.
He is the author of several articles and books on poverty, inequality and public health in Latin America. He is the coordinator of the University Program for Development Studies, member of the editorial board of the journal Economíaunam, published by the UNAM, member of the Institute for the Study of Democratic Transition and of the Mexican Academy of Political Economy, President of the Pereyra Foundation, A.C. and Director of the magazine Configuraciones .