About this video In this conference Fernando Monterroso unveils some of Guatemala’s main problems and proposes interesting solutions to solve them, all of this in the midst of one of the country’s worst security and social crises on its history.  He describes how the government, through its diverse institutions has been unable to provide basic services such as security, which plays an elemental role […]

About this video The spirit of entrepreneurship is one of the most important qualities a person can have in a globalized world. In this interview Peter Thiel describes how entrepreneurship helped him to become a successful investor. He describes the challenges he faced when he started his company and how he managed to overcome them. […]

About this video Rimvydas Baltaduonis shares a brief and interesting conversation with Luis Figueroa regarding the relevance of experimental economics today.  He discusses how experimental economics can be applied to study human behavior and decision making and to test market mechanisms. He also explains how experimental economics may be used to answer some of the questions […]

About this video Dr. William Lewis is founding director of the McKinsey Global Institute and author of the book The Power of Productivity.  In this interview, hosted by Luis Figueroa, Dr. Lewis explains that poverty continues to be a major problem in the 21st century but that there are examples of societies that have found ways to overcome […]