Manuel Glave is a PhD in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. GRADE Principal Investigator, specialist in rural development, environmental economics and natural resources, and analysis of agricultural and environmental public policy.

He is Principal Professor of the Department of Economics of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Among his main investigations, those carried out on peasant production systems in mountain ecosystems, community participation in protected natural areas and economic valuation of biological diversity and environmental services stand out. He has been a professor of environmental economics and natural resources in Ecuador and Paraguay , as part of the SPEAL Program (Seminar on Economic Policies for Latin America). He is currently investigating the social impact of large-scale mining on rural development in the Peruvian Andes. He has been President of the Permanent Seminar on Agrarian Research (SEPIA) between 1997 and 1999 and, together with Juana Kuramoto, he was the national coordinator of the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) project in 2001.