Miguel Lengyel

Bio

Academic Background

• July 1978 Lawyer, Universidad de Belgrano, School of Law and Social Sciences, Buenos Aires, Argentina

• December 1982 MA in International Relations, Universidad de Belgrano, School of Graduate Studies, Buenos Aires, Argentina

• 1982 Universidad de Belgrano, School of Graduate Studies, Dissertation for the MA Degree in
  International Relations “The North-South Relation:A Comparative Analysis”, passed with honors

• September 1991 PH.D candidate in Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Areas of Expertise

Present Positions

• Project Deputy Director Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO/Argentina)

Previous Positions

• 1984-1986 Research Assistant, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, (FLACSO), International Relations Area, Project: “Economic Integration Argentina-Brazil”

• 1989 Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, Department of Political Science, ProJect: “Development of the Capital-goods Industry in Latin America"

• 1988-1990 Research fellow, Harvard University, Harvard Business School, Project: “Global Competition in the Automobile Industry”

• 1995 Research Fellow, Ministry of Education of Argentina, National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET), ProJect: “Structures of Industrial Governance and the Competitiveness of SMEs in Argentina”

• 1995-1997 Project Director, Undersecretary of Science and Technology of Argentina, Project IADB-CONICET 802 OC/AR,“Labor Training: A New Management Technology for a Flexible Labor Market”

• 1998-2001 Project Deputy Director, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Project “Leading Issues in International Trade Relations”

• 1978-1983 Attorney-at-law

• 1991 External Consultant, Harvard University, Harvard Business School. Project “Organizational Changes in the Automobile Industry at the Global Level”

• 1994-1998 External Consultant, Center for the Regional Development of Labor, (CeDeRT), Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

• 1994 External Consultant, Agreement between the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and the Ministry of Production and Employment of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Project “Evaluation and Promotion of Associativeness at the Municipal Level”

• 2000 Advisor, Secretariat of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Finance

• 2000 Advisor, House of Deputies, National Congress

• 2000-2001 General Manager, BID Program 1206/OC-AR, “Institutional Strengthening of Foreign Trade Policy”, Secretariat of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Finance

Other Activities and Memberships

• 1984 Associate Professor, Course on Political Sociology, Universidad Católica de La Plata, School of Social Sciences

• 1992 Professor, Professors’ Training Course “The Current Reform of Industrial Relations Systems”, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, School of Social Sciences

• 1992-1995 Full Professor, Undergraduate Course “Crisis and Reconstruction of Industrial Relations Systems”, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, School of Social Sciences, Department of Industrial Relations

• 1993 Full Professor, Graduate Course “Competitiveness and New Ways of Human Resource Management”, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, School of Social Sciences

• 1994-1995 Associate Professor, Graduate Course “International Political Economy”, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Master in International Relations

• 1995-1998 Associate Professor, Graduate Course “International Aspects of Development”, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Master in International Relations

• 1995-1999 Full Professor, Graduate Course “Industrial Relations Systems and its Recent Crisis”, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Center for Advanced Studies, Master in Labor Studies

• 1996 Full Professor, Graduate Course “Flexibility, Organizational Change and ‘Social Management’ of Human Resources”, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, School of Social Sciences

• 1996 Full Professor, Graduate Course “Economic Integration in the Southern Cone: Evolution and Peespectives”, Universidad Católica de Santa Fe, Master in Political Science

• 1995-1998 Associate Professor, Graduate Course “International Economy and Trade”, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Master in Regional Integration

• 1999- Professor, Graduate Course “Topics of International Trade”, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, School of Economic Sciences, Master in Economic Strategy

• 1999- Associate Professor, Graduate Course “International Economy”, Ministry of Foreign Relations of Argentina, National Institute of Foreign Affairs

• 999- Associate Professor, Graduate Course “International Trade”, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO/Argentina), Master in International Relations

Publications

• “Guía de fuentes sobre las relaciones internacionales de Argentina”, Facultad Latinoa-mericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), International Relations Area, Working Paper Nº 17, 1985

• Brasil, las relaciones con Argentina: Primeros síntomas de un acercamiento estable”, with Mónica Hirst, América Latina Internacional, Vol. 2, Nº 6, October-December 1985

• “Relaciones económicas Brasil-Argentina 1975-1985”, with Mónica Hirst, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), International Relations Area, Working Paper Nº 28, 1986

• “Integración argentino-brasileña: Un paso histórico”, with Mónica Hirst, Cono Sur, Vol. V, Nº5, October-December 1986

• “Latin American economic integration: Subregional trade arrangements and patterns of trade”, with Gustavo Indart, FOCAL/Centre for International Studies of the University of Toronto, Working Paper FC 1995-7, July 1995

• “Compromisos en la organización mundial de comercio sobre promoción de exportacio-nes”, with Diana Tussie, Integración & Comercio, Vol. 2, Nº 4/5, January-August 1998(also published in Portuguese in Revista Brasileira de Comercio Exterior, Vol XIII, October-December 1998)

• “Promoción de exportaciones y compromisos multilaterales: Posibilidades e interrogantes”, with Diana Tussie, in M. Olarreaga and R. Rocha (eds.), La Nueva Agenda del Comercio en la OMC, Instituto del Banco Muncuial/Universidad del Rosario (Colombia), 2000

• “Governance challenges for the WTO”, with Diana Tussie, in Development Research Group/World Bank Institute, World Bank (eds.), Trade Policy for Developing Countries in a Global Economy: A Handbook, (forthcoming)

• “Del Austral al Tropical: Similitudes y diferencias en la lucha contra la inflación”, with Saúl Keifman, Trading, Vol. II, Nº 9, March-April 1986

• “La crisis en Brasil: riesgos y oportunidades”, AZK, Vol. 1, Nº 3, September-November 1998

• “The politics of union reform: the case of Argentina’s auto workers”, MIT, Center of International Studies, Working Paper Nº 33, 1990

• “Economic prospects for Argentina in the 1990s: From chronic decay to sustained pros-perity?”, Universidad of Toronto, Centre for International Studies, Working Paper I-93, March 1993

• “Globalization and organizational change in the auto industry: Implications for developing countries”, Harvard University, Harvard Business School, unpublished manuscript, 1990

• The politics of industrial adjustment in Argentina: The case of the machine-tool sector”, paper presented at the XVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Washington DC, April 4-6, 1991

• “Reestructuración industrial en la industria automotriz argentina”, with Jorge Katz, unpublished manuscript, 1992

• “The social embededness of industrial restructuring: the steel industry in Argentina”, unpublished manuscript, 1994

• “Competitividad y opciones de inserción económica externa”, Nexos de la Nueva Agenda Internacional, May 1994

• “Gobernancia industrial: Nuevos enfoques para el estudio de la organización industrial”, unpublished manuscript, July 1997

• “La relevancia de las tecnologías de gestión”, I&D, Vol. II, Nº 1, April 1996

• La Organización Moderna, Más Allá del Fordismo, Mercado, Estrategias de Negocios, 2000.Current Research Projects

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