Jaime R. Duhart – Associate
Jaime R. Duhart holds a BS in Economics and a Graduate Diploma in Corporate International Finance. He is the founder and CEO of the Interdisciplinary Center of Human Development (CINDEH). This recently established consulting company deals with human development issues at the individual, organization and societal levels, with a systemic and integrative approach.
Jaime began his career in Chile, some 40 years ago. During the first 5 years he specialized in agricultural economics working successively in three institutions: The Institute of Training and Research in Agrarian Reform (ICIRA); SOCOAGRO, a state company carrying out economic-feasibility studies for the construction of agro-industrial plants throughout Chile; and the Latin American Center for Social and Economic Development, an international NGO implementing local development projects in rural areas of Central America. These first experiences allowed Jaime to get to know his country and Central America thoroughly, and to perform interdisciplinary work along with civil engineers, agronomists and sociologists.
For the next 10 years Jaime worked abroad, first as an Economist at the International Coffee Organization, ICO, London, which administered the International Coffee Agreement, signed by coffee importer and producer countries under the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD; and later as Senior Economist at Lloyds Bank International, LBI, in London, Brazil (Sao Paulo) and Spain (Barcelona). In both these entities Jaime carried out work on macroeconomic studies of Latin American countries, traveled extensively throughout Latin America and Europe, and interacted with many diverse cultures.
Back in Chile, Jaime first worked as Senior Advisor at a private Chilean bank, where he coordinated a group of five Latin American banks interested in establishing a Latin American Banking Consortium in New York City. He then worked as senior Economist at the American Embassy, in Santiago; founded Finamer, a consulting firm dealing with financial and economic advisory activities; and founded AB Tamiz, an agricultural company producing fruit and vegetables for the Chilean export market.
Before founding CINDEH, his present company, Jaime held various academic and managerial positions at Universidad Bolivariana, a Chilean private university he co-founded 15 years ago. During these years the University grew from a student body of about 150 in 1991 to some 4,000 in 2006, and from one campus located in Santiago to four campuses, three of them located in other cities north and south of the capital. As President and Prorrector, Jaime performed several consulting activities offered by the University to profit and not-for-profit, private, public and social entities and communities, mainly on strategic planning, transformational leadership, organizational development, local development, and human development.
PUBLICATIONS
Globalization of Human Consciousness and Cultural Diversity, in “A Redefinition of Development”, UNIDA Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2000).
Ethical Challenges and Development, in “Chile: Ethical Challenges of the Present Time”, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Editorial Aguilar, Santiago, Chile (1999).
Comments on Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in “50 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1958-1998, Conquests and Challenges”, Federal Board of Brazil’s Attorney’s Federation, Brasilia, Brazil (1998).
Several articles on macroeconomic and economic-sector issues of the Chilean economy in “The South Pacific Mail”, Santiago, Chile (1986-1990).
Several articles on the economy of Southern Cone countries in Latin America, published by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Bank of London & South America Review, London (1974-1980).
PRESENTATIONS AND SEMINARS
Human Scale Development and Globalization, VIII Seminar on Global Change, UNIDA Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2002).
Universidad Bolivariana Observatory of the Common Good, First Encounter of Social Observatories in Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by the Equity and Integration Observatory of Medellin and Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia (2002).
Globalization Processes and Human Consciousness, II International Conference on Human Development, Sociology and Society, Department of Sociology, Havana University, Havana, Cuba (2002).
Network Phenomena and New Paradigmatic Perspectives Serving Human and Social Development, Seminar on New Paradigms, Networks and Human Development, Department of Psychology, SEK International University, Chile (2002).
Some Experiences of Participatory Projects in Human Development in the Bio Health Care Service, Second International Colloquia on Human Development, Vic University, Catalonia, Spain (2001).
Transformational Leadership and Development, VII Seminar on Global Change, UNIDA Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2001).
Economics and Ecology, VI Seminar on Global Change, UNIDA Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2000).
Culture, Economics and Globalization: development as growth or development as transformation?, Spring International Colloquia, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Mexico’s Autonomous National University (UNAM) (1999).
Paradigm Shift and Social Sciences: a perspective from economics, Spring International Colloquia, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Mexico’s Autonomous National University (UNAM), (1998).
Some Models of Alternative Development, III Seminar on Global Change, UNIDA Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1997).
Presentations in seminars held in Asuncion, Buenos Aires, Cali, Caracas, Guatemala City, Mexico City, Panama City, Guayaquil, Honduras, Havana, Lima, Managua, Montevideo, Quito, San Jose, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santo Domingo, Sao Paulo, and Tegucigalpa, organized by several universities and NGOs as follow-up activities to the UN World Summit for Social Development (1995-1996).
The Prosperity of Humankind, representing the Bahá’í International Community, UN World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, Denmark (1995).
