Faculty Mentor: Alberto Diaz-Cayeros
Faculty Mentor Email: albertod@stanford.edu
Office Description:
The Global Center for Development and Democracy works to promote a social agenda for democracy in Latin America. The GCDD focuses its work on understanding and leveraging the connections among democracy, poverty, and economic growth towards a better and more comprehensive approach to Latin American development. The Center supports and directs targeted interventions that work at a micro level to incorporate the specific cultural and human needs of diverse peoples. All initiatives aim particularly towards incorporating sustainability and justice with the needs of a growing capital economy and at connecting small scale successes to broad applications and a larger framework of progress.
Office Website: www.cgdd.net
Prospective Projects
The fellow may work on a number of different projects, though one of the following will be selected as the primary focus before the fellow arrives in Lima. Current projects at the Center include:
- Promoting women’s access to micro-credit in rural communities
- Promoting urban job growth by improving the credit of the urban poor
- Working with foreign-owned mining companies to promote a more comprehensive and just relationship with laborers through a focus on environmental requirements, occupational risk, and community building.
Desired Personal Qualities:
The fellow should be able to take significant personal initiative, should be interested in learning not only about the academic side of development but also about the cultural, historical, and social structures at work in Peru, and should be comfortable in a mature and fast-paced environment.
Desired Skills, Experience, and Coursework:
- Economics, particularly development economics and labor economics
- Experience implementing development initiatives or other organizational background
- Experience working in Latin America
- Strong writing and oral communication skills
Main Fellowship Disciplines:
- Economics
- Political Science
- International Relations
- Public Policy
- Latin American Studies
Languages:
Spanish