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M. Sophia Aguirre
Associate Professor of Economics

E-mail: aguirre@cua.edu
 

Web: http://faculty.cua.edu/aguirre
Phone: (202) 319-4957

Dr. Aguirre earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Notre Dame and joined the CUA faculty in 1993. Professor Aguirre's professional background also includes degrees in accounting and banking finance, earned in Argentina. She earned her undergraduate degrees, CPA and MBA in Argentina as well. Dr. Aguirre is an associate professor of Economics. She has also held appointments at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University's Economics Department and has visited the Instituto de Altos Estudios Empresariales (I.A.E.E.) at the University of Austral in Argentina.

Dr. Aguirre's specialization is in international finance and economic development. She has researched and published in the areas of exchange rates and economic integration, as well as on theories of population, resources, and family as it relates to economic development. Her work has been published, among others, in International Advances in Economic Research, Journal of Economic Studies, International Review of Economic and Finance, Journal of Economics and Finance, Atlantic Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Integration, International Journal of Social Economics, Review of International Economics, and Journal of Public Law. She is also the author of The Economic Consequences of the U.N. Conferences of the 1990s and of several book chapters. Recognizing her contributions to the field, she has received a Citation of Excellence for her paper published in Journal of Economic Studies, 25:6, 1998, ANBAR Electronic Intelligence, 1999 and has been selected for inclusion in Who's Who Among America's Teachers, March 1996.

Dr. Aguirre has participated and lectured in several conferences at both the national and international level. Since ICPD '94, she has actively participated in UN Conferences. Professor Aguirre is a member of several prestigious organizations, in which she serves and has served as an officer in different capacities. Among them is the Commission on the Status of Women in the Professions, a working group of the American Economic Association. Dr. Aguirre is also actively involved with leadership programs for young women.

She has testified in front of Congresses on issues related to population, family and health both nationally and internationally. Among these are included the Congress of the United States, Uganda, Honduras as well as the United Nations, and the Central American and Canadian Parliaments. She also has advised several US Congressmen and other countries' Permanent Missions to the UN and UN Delegates on economic aspects of UN Documents. She has also advised Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda's Governments on Women's Education and Health. She is a presidential appointee to the US Advisory Commission on Foreign Diplomacy.

Dr. Aguirre also serves as ad hoc reviewer for the American Economic Review, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economics and Finance, Journal of International Economics, Applied Financial Economics, The Review of Metaphysics, International Journal of Business, Economic Journal, and The Financial Review.