Sovereign Debt Diplomacies

Juan Flores Zendejas has a PhD in Economics from Sciences Po Paris. Before joining the Department of History, Economics, and Society at the University of Geneva as an Associate Professor in 2008, Flores Zendejas held a tenure-track position at the University Carlos III in Madrid (Spain). He has been invited professor in other universities in Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, and Switzerland. He has also worked for the Mexican Government and as externalconsultant to the Mexican Senate, to the private sector, and to the OECD. Flores Zendejas works on financial crises and sovereign defaults in a long-term perspective, and on the economic history of Latin America. Pierre Pénet holds a PhD in sociology from Northwestern University and Sciences Po Paris (2014). Now a Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Geneva, Pénet coordinates, with Juan Flores, the project Sovereign Debt Diplomacies funded by the Swiss National Foundation. Pénet's expertise straddles the boundaries of 'sociology of expertise' and 'economic history' scholarships. He has published widely on credit rating agencies, the IMF, the New Deal,European sovereign debt crisis, and austerity programmes. His British Journal of Sociology article 'The IMF failure that wasn't: tournaments of conditionality and strategic ignorance during the European debt crisis' was awarded in 2018 with the 'Young Talent Award' by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences. He has aforthcoming book: Les prophètes de la finance : le coeur inquiet de la société du risque (Éditions du Croquant).