Miguel Ángel Santos holds a PhD in Economics from University of Barcelona (2016) and a Master’s in Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard University (2014).
For a decade (2013-2023), he served as Director of Applied Research at Harvard’s Growth Lab, leading multidisciplinary teams in research projects aimed at helping governments to rethink their growth and development strategies. He has held academic appointments as Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School (2017–2020), Professor of Practice in Development at the London School of Economics (2021–2023) and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy since 2020.
He has served as chief of the macroeconomic policy team for three presidential candidates in Venezuela and has published a significant body of research on the Venezuelan economy, including journal articles, case studies, seven book chapters and two books: Venezuela: A national accord to pursue development, 2006; From Collective Punishment to Constraints on Authority: Rethinking the Impact of US Sanctions on Venezuela, forthcoming at Cambridge University Press. Together, these publications have been quoted more than three hundred times in the economic literature.
Since May 2023, he has been the Dean of the School of Government and Public Transformation at Tecnologico de Monterrey.
