Carlota Perez

Venezuelan-British, Researcher, speaker and international consultant, specialized in the social and economic impact of technical change and in the historically changing conditions for growth, development and competitiveness

She is a Centennial Professor of International Development at the London School of Economics (LSE), UK; Professor of Technology and Development at the Nurkse Institute, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, and SPRU Honorary Professor, Science and Technology Policy Research, School of Business, Management and Economics, University of Sussex, UK

His articles from the 1980s and his book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and the Golden Age [Elgar 2002] have contributed to the current understanding of the relationship between technical and institutional change, between finance and technological diffusion, and between technology and economic development. Some of his articles and books are used as study material in postgraduate courses at universities in many countries.

As a consultant and speaker, she has worked for various public and private organizations, for large corporations and governments in Latin America, North America and Europe, as well as for the EU, OECD, UN and several multilateral organizations.