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Jose Carlos Orihuela

Jose Carlos Orihuela is a doctoral candidate in Sustainable Development. A recipient of the CICR Empedocle Maffia Fellowship, his doctoral dissertation examines the rise of the green state in Latin America by asking why green policy convergence takes place within institutional divergence in mineral-rich Chile and Peru. His research gives close attention to the critical role of policy-entrepreneurs at windows of opportunity and the evolving interplay of agency and structure. He is also involved in a research project with a group of scholars from the University of Oxford whose goal is to revisit the resource-curse hypothesis by comparing six cases of institutional development across Latin America and Africa.

Jose Carlos holds a B.A. in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru and a MPA in International Development from Harvard University. His research interests include the political economy of environmental conflict, green governance and resource-based development.