Jose Enrique Garcilazo
Deputy Head of Regional Development and Multilevel Governance Division
OECD, France
Speaker Bio
José Enrique Garcilazo is a senior economist and policy leader with over 20 years of experience at the OECD, where he has built and led the organisation's analytical and policy agenda on regional and rural development. Throughout his career at the OECD, Garcilazo has made sustained contributions to the economics of geography and growth. His research has examined how natural resource endowments, institutional quality, and structural factors shape economic performance across places, and has advanced quantitative methods to measure the drivers of growth at the subnational level. A central thread of his work is the relationship between regional disparities and aggregate growth dynamics. He has contributed to flagship OECD publications including How Regions Grow and Regions Matter, led territorial reviews across more than 20 countries. He is the author of three books and over 30 OECD reports and peer-reviewed articles, with more than 2,000 citations.
He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy and a Master’s degree in economics from the University of Texas at Austin and teaches occasionally at Sciences Po Paris.
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Ianthi Hall | Amalia Hotel
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