Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M - Stone Center for Latin American Studies

PAOLO SPADONI, M.A., Ph.D.4440 S.W. Archer Road, #1325, Gainesville, FL 32608(H) 352-375-3355 • (C) 352-284-2326 • (O) 504-314-2601 • E-mail: pspadoni@tulane.eduGuest lecturer/panelist• Guest speaker at Rotary Club of Orlando, Orlando, Florida, May 15, 2008• Spring 2008 Symposium, “The Road to the White House: Tough Choices,” Lou Frey Institute of Politics and Government,University of Central Florida, Orlando, March 31, 2008.• Interviewed as an expert on the Cuban economy and US-Cuba relations on Voice of America, August 13, 2007.• Daytona Beach Community College (DBCC), regional forum on the subject of “Cuba After Castro – Part II,” panel organizedby DBCC Center for International Business Education, January 17, 2007.• DBCC Public Broadcasting Channel 15, “Eyes on Education – panel on Cuba,” January 17, 2007.• Orlando, “Doing Business in Cuba,” conference organized by the U.S.-Cuba Trade Association (USCTA), April 13, 2006.• Interviewed as an expert on the Cuban economy on the Voice of America program Ventana a Cuba (Window on Cuba),February 13 and 15, 2006.• Tampa, “Beyond Cigars and Coffee: Cuba’s Investment Opportunities,” panel organized by the Society of InternationalBusiness Fellows (SIBF), February 13, 2006.• Daytona Beach Community College (DBCC), regional forum on the subject of “Cuba After Castro,” panel organized byDBCC Center for International Business Education, January 25, 2006.• Interviewed as an expert on the Cuban economy on the Voice of America program Ventana a Cuba (Window on Cuba),January 5-6, 2006.• Inter-American Dialogue (Washington D.C.), “Cuba on the Brink? US Policy After the Powell Commission,” panelorganized by Florida International University's Cuban Research Institute and Inter-American Dialogue, November 29, 2005.• University of Florida, Center for Latin American Studies, course “Political Economy of Latin America,” instructor Dr. AnaMargheritis, November 2004.• University of Florida, Center for Latin American Studies, seminar “Translating Latin American Literature,” instructor Dr.Elizabeth Lowe, June 2004.• University of Florida, Center for Latin American Studies, seminar “Continuity and Change in the Cuban Revolution,”instructor Dr. Menno Vellinga, February 2004.• Stetson University, Latin American Studies course, instructor Mary E. Risner, October 2002.• University of Florida, College of Journalism, “A Bridge to Cuba”, panel moderated by Greg Stuart Smith (news director atWUFT-TV), October 2002.PUBLICATIONS• “The U.S. Congress and the Cuban Embargo: Analysis of a Learning Process,” Book chapter in M. Leann Brown, MichaelKenney, and Michael J. Zarkin (eds.), Organizational Learning in the Global Context, Ashgate Publishing, 2006.• “The Current Situation of Foreign Investment in Cuba,” in Cuba in Transition--Volume 14. Association for the Study of theCuban Economy (ASCE), 2004, pp.109-131.• “U.S. Financial Flows in the Cuban Economy,” Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, Volume 14, Number 1,Spring 2004, pp.81-117.• “The Role of the United States in the Cuban Economy,” in Cuba in Transition--Volume 13. Association for the Study of theCuban Economy (ASCE), 2003, pp. 410-429.• “Foreign Investment in Cuba: Recent Developments and Role in the Economy,” in Cuba in Transition--Volume 12.Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE), 2002, pp. 158-178.• “The Impact of the Helms-Burton Legislation on Foreign Investment in Cuba,” in Cuba in Transition--Volume 11,Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE), 2001, pp. 18-36.• “Cuba’s Current Economic Situation: Macroeconomic Performance, Structural Changes, and Future Challenges,” Bookchapter accepted on July 30, 2008 for inclusion in a University of California (UC)-Cuba anthology under review byUniversity of California Press.• Manuscript on U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba (Title TBA) that University Press of Florida (UPF) is considering forpublication. The book was favorably reviewed by the editor of the Contemporary Cuba Series at UPF. I am currentlyworking on minor revisions before submitting the final version.• “Foreign Direct Investment in Costa Rica’s High Technology Sectors: Economic Impact and Future Challenges,” article to besubmitted for publication in referee journal.• Article on foreign direct investment in the Dominican Republic’s free trade zones that will be submitted for publication in areferee journal during Spring 2008/Fall 2009.2