Hugo A. Eyzaguirre, Ph.D.is the Director of the Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship at Northern Michigan University (NMU), Marquette, MI. He serves NMU as Associate Professor of Economics and Faculty Advisor of students for Liberty and Enactus.
Dr. Eyzaguirre is a member of the Board of Scholars of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy; the NMU Academic Senate; the College of Arts and Sciences Advisory Committee; the Committee on Internationalization; the Educational Technological Resource and Policies Committee; the Association of Private Enterprise Education and the National Association of Economic Educators.
Dr. Eyzaguirre has extensive experience in economic developmental issues that focus on classical liberal and new institutional economics. As a consultant and researcher, he has worked on institutional analysis and the impact on private economic activities with the financial support of organizations like the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank as well as numerous international foundations. He has provided advice on topics that cover state modernization, decentralization, judicial reform and the competitiveness of government programs. Additionally, he is considered an expert when it comes to competition and regulatory issues due to hands on experience with dispute resolutions that include general competition, consumer protection, and telecom regulation. He has served as a private arbitrator and financial ombudsman.
Previous experience includes serving as Dean of the School of Economics; professor in the Schools of Economics, Law and Graduate Studies; member of the Organizing Committee of the Economics; Program founder and director of the Center for Economic Education; founding member of the Law and Economics Society; founder and academic director of the Master Program in Regulation at the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC).
Education:
Ph.D., Economics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO., 1995
M.A., Economics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO., 1991
M.A., Public Policy and Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1985
Bachelor of Economics, Universidad del Pacifico, 1981
