# Mauricio de Miranda Parrondo

**Date of birth:** April 1, 1958

**Categories:** Society, professor, Doctor

Mauricio de Miranda has resided in Cali, Colombia since 1989.

He studied a Bachelor's degree in Economics at the University of Havana and completed his Doctorate in International Economics and Development at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

He is currently a Full Professor of the Department of Economics and Director of the Center for Studies on the Pacific Basin of the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali.

Since 1990 he has worked as a professor at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Cali, Colombia, where he served as Director of the Department of Economics between 1995 and 2002 and between 2006 and 2012.

In 1989, upon arriving in Colombia, he was a professor at the University of San Buenaventura in Cali. Between 1984 and 1988 he worked as a Researcher of International Markets at the Cuban Fund for Cultural Assets of the Ministry of Culture of Cuba, and between 1981 and 1984 he was a Researcher at the Center for Research on the World Economy in Havana, Cuba.

He participated in an expert panel on the relationship between the United States and Cuba in the television program Claves, co-produced by Deutsche Welle of Germany and Canal Capital of Colombia.

His intellectual interests encompass a broad spectrum of topics ranging from issues related to international political economy, world economic history, the history of economic thought, economic policy and development models to those related to culture and the arts, especially opera, ballet, film, theater, literature, and visual arts.