Dr Carlos Castel-Branco

I am a Mozambican economist, with a DPhil (Doctorate) in economics, with focus on the political economy of industrial policy, from the University of London (SOAS), 2002. I have taught, at undergraduate level, at the Faculty of Economics of the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), Mozambique, where I am Associate Professor in industrialization and development economics, since 1992. Over the years, I have taught the following subjects: Development Economics, Industrial Economics, Economic Policy, Social Cost-Benefit Analysis, African Economies, Mozambican Economy and Research Methods. I have also taught introduction to economics at the Faculty of Humanities. In 2007 I was the leading founder of the Institute for Social and Economic Research (IESE), in Mozambique, having led the process of establishing it (from 2005) and been IESE's first director (from 2007 to 2012). Since 2007, I have been the coordinator of IESE's research group on economics and development, leading a team of 8 researchers. IESE is an independent, interdisciplinary and heterodox research Institute (for more information, please visit IESE's website, www.iese.ac.mz). Before joining the teaching staff of UEM, I worked on economic and industrial policy and public enterprise restructuring, for almost a decade, in different departments of the Mozambican government. I am a member of the Mozambican association of economists.

My main areas of research are on political economy of economic growth and accumulation, industrialization and public policy.

I have published more than one hundred book chapters, conference presentations, and working, discussion and research papers, and edited or co-edited 10 books. Four key, recent papers - "Extractive economy and challenges for industrialization in Mozambique"; "Paradoxes of the Mozambican economy - the extractive mode of accumulation as the explanatory method"; "The agrarian question and the system of contradictory policies - or why is it so difficult to decide what to do about agriculture in Mozambique?"; and "Reflecting about accumulation, porosity and industrialization in the context of an extractive economy" - capture the essential components of my current work, and that of my research team at IESE, on the political economy of the Mozambican mode of capitalist accumulation.