Manuel Gonzalo graduated with magna cum laude in economics from UBA (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Argentina. He has a master's degree in economics and industrial development from UNGS (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento), Argentina and a doctoral degree in economics from UFRJ (Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro), Brazil. He is Adjunct Professor at the Degree on Development Economics of the UNQ (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes), Associate Professor at the school of economics of UNDEC (Universidad Nacional de Chilecito), and Co-Coordinator at the South Asia working group of CARI (Consejo Argentino para las Relaciones Internacionales). He has 20 years of experience in doing research, fieldworks, and giving classes and lectures at different universities of Argentina, Brazil, and India (UNQ, UNGS, UNDEC, UNSAM, UNTREF, UNCAUS, UTDT, FLACSO, UNDEF, ISEN, UFRJ, FIOCRUZ, JNU, etc.) mainly on comparative development, innovation and entrepreneurial systems, and industrial, STI and international cooperation policy. He was visiting researcher at the Center for Development Studies (CDS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Kerala, India, and at the Research Network on Local Productive and Innovative Systems (Redesist), Economics Institute (IE), UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He assesses Latin American governments, firms, think tanks, and international organisms in building their relationship with India, South Asia, and the Global South.
