2018 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

96 2018 Yearbook Giselle Della Mea, B.A. (Argentina) Professor in the Department of Innovation and Technology Management. She participated as a speaker on the topic “Change Makers” at the Argentina Summit 2018 organized by The Economist, Buenos Aires, March 15. Dr. Nicolás Gambetta (Argentina) Academic Coordinator of the Graduate Programs in Accounting and Taxation. He led the Research Methodology Workshop for the Master’s in Accounting and Auditing at the Faculty of Economic, Legal, and Social Sciences of the National University of Salta, April 20–21. Dr. Norma Pontet (Argentina) Professor of Management Accounting and Academic Coordinator of Finance Programs. She taught the Management Accounting seminar for the Doctorate in Accounting and Auditing at the National University of Rosario, August 7–10. Prof. Oscar Iroldi (Argentina) Professor of Economics and Tourism Organization. He participated alongside a group of students in Economics and Tourism Organization from the Technical Degree in Tourism Management program at the 2018 International Tourism Fair held in Buenos Aires, September 29–30. Dr. Francisco Rosas (Australia) Professor of Econometrics and Statistics and researcher in Economics. He presented the paper “The effect of irrigation on income volatility reduction: A prospect theory approach” 19 at the annual conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, Adelaide, February 6–9. He presented the paper “How reliable is duality theory in empirical work?” at the Agricultural Economics Seminar Series at the Faculty of Economics, University of Sydney, February 12–15. Dr. Ricardo Kaufmann (Austria) Associate Professor of General Administration. He presented the paper “The challenge of managing healthcare costs through obesity: the case of Uruguay” 20 at ECO 2018—the 25th European Congress on Obesity, organized by the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO), Vienna, May 22–26. 19 Conducted in collaboration with Mariana Sans, M.A., graduate research assistant in the Department of Economics at Yale University, and Santiago Arana, B.S., private consultant. 20 Conducted in collaboration with Dr. Norma Pontet, Program Coordinator in Finance and Professor of Managerial Accounting at the School of Administration and Social Sciences, Universidad ORT Uruguay. ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES ABROAD 20 18