PhD Researcher

Jorge.Quintero@warwick.ac.uk

I'm a political economist with a background in international relations from the University of Mexico (UNAM), with training in finance from the Institute of Studies of Chiapas (IESCH) and research in global political economy from the University of Bristol.

My interest in the political economy started early in my professional career by analysing the political economy of the "Plan Colombia" under the administration of Andres Pastrana. Later on, studying finance my focus was on the development of the closest relationship between the financial sector and the government by inquiring the effects in the access to financial covers to producers in rural areas in the south of Mexico. These studies provided me with the interpretative tools to advance in the study of the access that governments have to the financial markets in the specific case of sovereign wealth funds as financial vehicles to finance public policies.

I have more than 10 years of experience working at the three levels of government and various legislatures in Mexico. These experiences have given me a sharp eye to understand the financial and political constraints that public policies often encounter for the benefit of the most vulnerable.

In addition to these, I had the opportunity to enrich my experience by working in collaborative projects to reduce inequality and poverty with international agencies from the United Nations and the federal and provincial governments in the south of Mexico which gave me an international vision on the politics behind the interest of international organisations in Latin America.

Thesis

Currently, I am writing about the political economy of finance in Latin America. My approach takes a historical view to understand on a comparative basis the processes in which I argue that financialisation has taken a different route to become central to capitalist development in Latin America.

Financial deregulation and capital market-based financial systems are often used to address the evolution of financialisation in the United Kingdom or the United States but in the case of emerging economies these explanations not often fit properly considering the size of their markets when are compared with developed economies. I believe that a comparative analysis on the political economy of financialisation has the ability to bring explanations that economists have put aside on this issue whilst it would help to advance on the identification and understanding of the factors for which this phenomenon occurs differently in emerging economies.

My supervisors are Ben Clift and Chris Clarke

This research is sponsored by the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT by its acronym in Spanish) and the Ministry of Energy of Mexico (SENER by its acronym in Spanish).

Research interests

• Comparative Political Economy
• Central banking
• Financialisation
• Latin America
• Economic ideas

Awards and scholarships

• CONACYT Scholarship for the PhD at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. 2018-2022
• CONACYT Scholarship for the Master in Research at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. 2016-2017
• Ministry of Education in Mexico (SEP) Award for academic excellence. September 2016
• Institute of Superior Studies of Chiapas (IESCH) Scholarship for the Master´s degree in finance, Mexico. 2014-2015