Dr. Simon Gerards Iglesias

Personal Research Assistant of the Director

Tel: +49 221 4981-603 Mail: simon.gerards@iwkoeln.de Simon Gerards Iglesias

Since 2022 at the IW
2022: PhD at the University of Bremen with the dissertation: "Argentine Social Policy and the International Labor Organization (ILO), 1919-1943. Debates, Conflicts and Cooperation". First examiner: Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels (Univ. Bremen), Second examiner: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Stefan Rinke (FU Berlin).
2019-2022: PhD student and research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center 1342: Global Dynamics of Social Policy and at the Chair of Latin American History at the University of Bremen
2016-2019: Studied economic and social history at the Georg-August University of Göttingen. Title of Master's thesis: "Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Argentina. Economic, social and cultural determinants using the example of German immigrants"
2017: Study abroad at the Universidad de Buenos Aires.
2012-2016: Studied political economy (economics) at the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Research interests: Economic history, business history, globalization, global south, general topics of political economy.

IW Publications

Hüther, Michael / Gerards Iglesias, Simon / Fremerey, Melinda / Parthie, Sandra, 2023, Europa muss den nächsten Schritt wagen: Delors-Plan 2.0. Eine neue Version für Europa, IW-Policy Paper, Nr. 4, Köln / Berlin / Brüssel
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Gerards Iglesias, Simon / Matthes, Jürgen, 2023, Chinas Abhängigkeit vom Westen bei Importen und Technologien, IW-Report, Nr. 15, Köln
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Fremerey, Melinda / Gerards Iglesias, Simon, 2022, Abhängigkeit – Was bedeutet sie und wo besteht sie?, IW-Report, Nr. 56, Berlin / Köln
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Gerards Iglesias, Simon / Hüther, Michael, 2022, Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung durch Rückschritt – zu den Perspektiven der russischen Volkswirtschaft, IW-Report, Nr. 51, Köln
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External Publications

Gerards Iglesias, Simon, Inmigración y empresariado transnacional en Argentina a finales del siglo XIX. Los Weil y los Staudt, entre Alemania y Argentina". Cuadernos del Archivo VI/1, Nr. 10 (2022): 26-45.

Gerards Iglesias, Simon: Argentinische Sozialpolitik und die Internationale Arbeitsorganisation (ILO), 1919-1943. Debatten, Konflikte und Kooperationen. Dissertation, Universität Bremen, 2022.

Gerards Iglesias, Simon, Social Reforms and the Fear of Economic Backlash: Political Debates on Social Policy and Transnational Influences in Argentina in the 1930s, in: Nullmeier, Frank; González de Reufels, Delia; Obinger, Herbert, International Impacts on Social Policy. Short Histories in Global Perspective. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (Global Dynamics of Social Policy), S. 345-358.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-86645-7_27

More from Dr. Simon Gerards Iglesias

IW-Policy Paper No. 4 27. March 2023

Europe must take the next step: Plan Delors 2.0

Michael Hüther / Simon Gerards Iglesias / Melinda Fremerey / Sandra Parthie

In the coming years, the world order of exchange and multilateralism, which has so far been shaped by the West, will lose power, and global institutions will find it increasingly difficult to fulfil their mission of balancing interests and promoting international cooperation and development.

IW-Report No. 15 6. March 2023

China's dependence on the West for imports and technologies

Simon Gerards Iglesias / Jürgen Matthes

There are mutual dependencies between China and the West that have the potential to result in high economic costs for both sides in the event of a geopolitical conflict. Should China actually plan an invasion of Taiwan, the West would be considerably affected by likely reciprocal sanctions, but due to its important position as a supplier of important goods for China, it would by no means be unable to act.

IW-Report No. 56 3. November 2022

Dependence - What does it mean and where does it exist?

Melinda Fremerey / Simon Gerards Iglesias

The concept of dependency has been at the center of most recent policy debates. The German economy's dependence on exports, Europe's military dependence on the USA and, not least, the Germans' dependence on Russian gas - dependencies seem omnipresent and at the same time hardly solvable.

IW-Report No. 51 11. October 2022

Economic development through regression - on the prospects for the Russian economy

Simon Gerards Iglesias / Michael Hüther

The war in Ukraine will have profound geopolitical and economic consequences for Russia. The West has imposed sanctions on Russia on an unprecedented scale, largely dissolving decades of economic interdependence.