About me
Research
Welcome!
I am an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Administration at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Previously, I was a tenured Lecturer in Public Policy at Ulster University in the UK, supported by the British Academy under the 'exceptional talent' category.
I have also held research and teaching positions at several institutions. They are: CIVICA – The European University of Social Sciences, Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, London School of Economics Ideas, King’s College London, University of Limassol, and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
My research agenda follows two strands: (i) examining the contextual and institutional factors that enable politicians and bureaucrats to achieve policy success in the Global South; and (ii) decentering Public Administration by theorising it through critical and decolonial perspectives.
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.
This multi-faceted approach is reflected in my publications, which include articles in top journals such as : Journal of Public Administration, Research and Theory, Public Management Review, Governance (x2), Critical Policy Studies, Teaching Public Administration, Regional and Federal Studies, Studies in Higher Education, Journal of Education Policy, British Journal of Sociology of Education, among others. I have also published several works in Spanish.
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, and the Review of Democracy (Central European University).
I am dedicated to addressing academic inequality in the Global South. To this end, I founded the Instituto de Estudios Políticos Andinos - IEPA in 2009, serving as its General Director until 2011. Since 2014, I have held the position of Senior Research Fellow at IEPA.
Qualifications
I have earned my first doctorate in Public Services Management & Organisation at the King's College London.
At King's my project proposes a novel theoretical approach to decentre the comprehension of Weberian bureaucracies in Global South contexts by incorporating a postcolonial and critical perspective. It comparatively analyses the different trajectories that indigenous knowledges followed in their quest to form part of the bureaucratic apparatuses of Peru and Ecuador.
This project currently constitutes my book proposal and it seeks to build an alternative understanding to health policy change and interculturality by evaluating the racialised and gendered role of expert knowledge in postcolonial contexts.
I have also earned my second doctorate in Political Science and Governance with Summa Cum Laude at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin.
At Hertie, my project analyses the differing incentives that politicians and bureaucrats face in successfully implementing educational and health policies in the weak institutional environments of Latin America. My project is paper based, and you can read some of my published chapters here.
Among other qualifications, I have earned a MSc in Public Policy & Public Administration from the London School of Economics, and I have received training in Data Science, Casual Inference and Econometrical Modelling by the University of Oxford, and CIVICA - The European University of Social Sciences.