Kenneth Castillo-Hidalgo
Kenneth Castillo-Hidalgo
Welcome! I am a PhD in Applied Economics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). Currently, I work as a Postdoctoral fellow in Department ABC, at Politecnico di Milano (Italy).
My main research interests are in regional economics, with an emphasis on knowledge and innovation, and natural resources. Additionally, I have worked in topics such as the territorial and distributional consequences of market concentration, industrial organization, and evolutionary economics.
In 2024, I was honored to receive the 1st Place of the RSAI Young Researchers Prize.
Before entering academia, I worked as a Financial Advisory Consultant for mining workers unions, contributing to collective bargaining processes with organizations such as Sindicato Nº1 de Trabajadores de Minera Escondida, Sindicato de Trabajadores Minera Guanaco, Sindicato de Trabajadores Minera Zaldívar, and Sindicato de Trabajadores Minera Centinela.
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I was born in Antofagasta, in Northern Chile.
This city grows between the Pacific Ocean and the Coastal Range, in the coast of the Atacama Desert.
The mining resources and the sea have always been important elements in our territory.