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Andres Palacio

Andrés Palacio

Senior lecturer

Andres Palacio
Contact details
Organisation
  • Department of Economic History
  • Visiting address: Scheelevägen 15 B, Lund
  • Room number: Alfa 1:2057
  • Service point: 10
Webpage
Other affiliations
  • Senior lecturer
    Economic demography
  • Researcher
    Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
  • Member of Strategic Research Area
    MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World
  • Senior lecturer
    Economic development of the Global South
  • Associate professor
    Department of Economic History
  • Senior lecturer
    Centre for Economic Demography

Research

I research two areas:

1) economic development and sustainability of developing countries

2) social demography with a focus on racial and gender inequalities. 

Teaching

I have been teaching development economics and economic history since 2011 at the undergraduate and graduate level. The courses I teach on a regular basis are about inclusive growth, economic development, sustainability, history of technology, emerging Asia-Economic Transformation in East and South East Asia, including China and India

Professional work

I worked as a financial controller in the financial sector (Davivienda trust company and BRC Investor Services affiliated to Fitch Ratings) and the real sector (Bayer SA) between 1995 and 2001 in Bogotá. Then I studied at the LSE for two years and went back to Colombia as the academic coordinator of the Master in Government and Public Policy at the Externado University in Bogotá. In 2005 I was appointed as the national director of social promotion in the ministry of health. I had to identify, formulate and implement policies to improve the health conditions of the most vulnerable population of Colombia, win particular Afro-Colombian people. Then I was appointed as deputy minister of labour affairs of Colombia between 2007 and 2008.

Publications

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Last updated: 15 Sep 2025