Doctor Luis Ignacio Argüero

Dr. Luis I. Argüero
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Born in Buenos Aires, Doctor Argüero obtained a Licenciatura en
Ciencias de la Comunicación from Universidad de Buenos Aires in 2003.
After working for Argentina´s government and for a World Bank´s
program in the early 2000´s, he was granted a scholarship by the
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of Japan and moved to
Hiroshima in 2004 where he conducted research on postwar economic
recovery. In 2007, he obtained a Masters in Economics. His
specialization in regional economics got him to work at the Center for
Research on Regional Economic Systems of Hiroshima. He has written
papers on regional systems of innovation and published them in well
known journals (e.g. The Economic Studies and Studies on Regional
Economics). His work was presented at international conferences in
Japan, US and Australia. In 2010, he was awarded a PhD in Economics
from Hiroshima University and returned to Argentina, where he has
been teaching “Organization of Regional Economies” at Universidad de
Belgrano while working as a consultant for United Nations and local
governments. His academic interests lie in the fields of regional
development, post crisis recovery and knowledge creation.