Edwin Irizarry Mora
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Edwin Irizarry Mora(born March 8, 1961, inMayagüez, Puerto Rico) is aneconomist,professorandpro-independence leaderinPuerto Rico.[1]
Life
[edit]He was thePuerto Rican Independence Partycandidate forgovernorof the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in the2008 election.In 2004, he ran forResident Commissioner of Puerto RicoinWashington, D.C.He is a professor at theUniversity of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.He holds a Bachelor ofBusiness Administration(Magna Cum Laude) with a major in Accounting and Economics from the Mayaguez campus of the University of Puerto Rico,Masterof EconomicPlanningof theUniversity of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras CampusandPh.D.inDevelopment Studiesfrom theInstitute of Development Studies(IDS) in theUniversity of SussexinEngland.
He has been a professor at the Graduate School of Planning of the UPR and since 1989 has served as professor of economics at the Site of the UPR Mayaguez, an institution in which he holds the post of professor and has directed the Department of Economics. He was President of the Association of Economists of Puerto Rico and has been a member of the Association of Caribbean Economists, of the Association of Caribbean Studies of the Inter-American Planning Society and the Puerto Rican Planning. He graduated as Professional Planner. He has been an advisor to several public and private institutions, cooperatives, associations and nonprofit organizations at the community level.
He has specialized in issues ofeconomic developmentplanning,economy of Puerto Rico,globalization,the critique ofprivatizationand economic aspects of the environment andnatural resource management.He has participated actively in public life, occupying several positions in the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP), including the Secretariat and the Secretariat for Economic Affairs, besides being adviser to the PIP in theSenate of Puerto Rico.
He is the author of "Economy of Puerto Rico: Trends and Prospects", published byThomson Learning,a book that is currently used as a text in the current Economic and Social Development of Puerto Rico and other courses on the Puerto Rican economy. The book is based on his doctoral thesis unprecedented Wealth Distribution in the Puerto Rican Model of Development and his experience as a scholar and teacher of courses on the Puerto Rican economy. In 2013, the University of Puerto Rico published his book "Energy sources: community struggles and the environment in Puerto Rico."[2]His intellectual work includes the drafting of over 50 works, among professional articles, technical reports and economic studies and planning. In 2017, he collaborated with a group of colleagues from the University of Puerto Rico in the anthology "Essays for a new economy: Economic Development of Puerto Rico," published by Editorial Callejón.[3]Throughout his more than 20 years of participation in public affairs, he has given hundreds of lectures and talks in Puerto Rico, as well as in several other Latin American and Caribbean countries, in the United States and England.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"Edwin Irizarry Mora"(in Spanish).El Nuevo Dia.Archived fromthe originalon July 10, 2011.RetrievedDecember 1,2010.
- ^"Disponible en la Editorial de la UPR el libro Fuentes energéticas: luchas comunitarias y medioambiente en Puerto Rico".Fundación Universia. Universia. 3 January 2013.Retrieved2 May2017.
- ^"Publican libro de ensayos sobre la realidad económica del País".El Nuevo Día. 24 March 2017.Retrieved2 May2017.
