I am a political scientist with a focused research agenda on two interrelated strands: (i) understanding the contextual factors and institutional frameworks that enable politicians and bureaucrats to deliver successful policy outcomes in the Global South; and (ii) decentring Public Administration by theorising it from critical and decolonial perspectives, challenging dominant frameworks and foregrounding alternative epistemologies.

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I am an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Administration at Leiden University in the Netherlands. I have also held research and teaching positions at several institutions. These include CIVICA – The European University of Social Sciences, the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, London School of Economics IDEAS, King’s College London, the University of Limassol, and the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

Drawing on my professional experience in Peru’s Ministry of Education and National Planning Centre, I developed a methodological approach that combines applied econometrics with critical and post-colonial perspectives. My work appears in leading journals such as the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Management Review, Governance, Critical Policy Studies, Teaching Public Administration, Regional and Federal Studies, Studies in Higher Education, Journal of Education Policy, and the British Journal of Sociology of Education, among others.

My work has been featured in major international newspapers and media outlets, including Deutsche Welle (Germany), Folha de São Paulo (Brazil), Radio Cadena SER (Spain), DELO (Slovenia), La Ciencia que Somos (Mexico), Radio Programas del Perú, the Review of Democracy (Central European University), and The Conversation (France).

I earned my doctorate from King’s College London, master studies in the London School of Economics, and my bachelor honours (B.A.) in the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru. I have received training in Data Science, Causal Inference, and Econometric Modelling at the University of Oxford and CIVICA – The European University of Social Sciences.

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