Wagner Iglecias
Visiting Scholar 2002-2003
Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
PhD candidate in Sociology, Universidade de Sao Paulo (Brazil)

Area of Expertise: Iglecias has extensive knowledge on business-politics relations in Mexico and Brazil during the eighties and the nineties. He is also familiar with the thematic of the impacts of the economic globalization on metropolitan areas.

Country of Expertise: Brazil and Mexico

Current Research Project: Within the context of the neoliberal reforms in Latin America, Iglecias is researching the patterns of relationship between national economic elites and the State and the level of influence that those elites had over the reforms in Mexico and Brazil during the last two decades.

Project Title: Economic elites and the State in Latin America during the eighties and the nineties - Mexico and Brazil in a comparative perspective

Academic Background: Iglecias received his BA in Public Administration from Fundacao Getulio Vargas (1993) and in Social Sciences from Universidade de Sao Paulo (1996), his MA in Sociology from Universidade de Sao Paulo (1999). He is currently a PhD candidate in Sociology at the Universidade de Sao Paulo.

Iglecias is a professor of Faculdade Trevisan, in Sao Paulo, and was Academic Coordinator of the Fundacao Getulio Vargas' MBA "Managing the Change" (2001). He received a research fellowship from CONACYT to stay in Colegio de Mexico in December 2001 as Visiting Scholar.

Selected Publications
Iglecias has published several articles on various subjects in Brazilian and Mexican reviews and newspapers. He will have a chapter on:

• "Estado e empresariado na America Latina - Breves notas sobre os casos brasileiro e mexicano" in the book Empresa, Empresario e Sociedade (forthcoming 2003).