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Where I work: EsadeEcPol
Where I work: EsadeEcPol
I am part of the Esade Center for Economic Policy as deputy director focused on both the editorial and strategic aspects. Fundamos el Centro de Políticas Económicas de Esade a inicios de 2020. Nacimos con la pandemia, y en seguida tratamos de hacernos útiles. I think we've achieved it: today we form an exceptional team, and I dare say we're leaders in the conversation about evidence-based public policies. We have been tackling a wide range of topics: education, tech/AI impact, inequalities, polarization, health (physical and mental) policies, and other areas that we consider to be of special relevance to society.
Where (else) can you find me
Where (else) can you find me
Here you can find almost everyting I write. You would read me mostly in El País, the media outlet I've had a close relationship with since 2016 through analytical, data-driven contributions. And here is my more academic profile.
I collaborate with several consulting firms (with Eurasia Group on political risk analysis on a permanent basis since 2014), foundations, universities, and media outlets: I've written frequently for Letras Libres or Jot Down. Once I was even invited to an op-ed at the Spanish edition of the New York Times.
I spend plenty of time inn X/Twitter and LinkedIn, and also keep a newsletter on which I allow myself to experiment a bit more freely with ideas. I invite you to take a look and subscribe if you find it useful.
Where I come from
Where I come from
I studied sociology (BA at the University of Valencia) and public policy (double master's at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Central European University, thanks to an Erasmus Mundus grant from the European Commission). I completed my PhD at the University of Geneva with a thesis in quantitative political sociology focused on the transformation of European workers' positions on labor and welfare policies, with a special focus on those least protected by current institutions. During this time, we built the most comprehensive database on public policies in the areas of labor, taxation, pensions, education, finance, and health for advanced economies (thanks to funding from a competitive project from the Swiss National Science Foundation).
I'm one of the people who founded Politibot (one of the first chatbots in Spain) and, especially, Politikon. The truth is: if I can do what I do today, I owe it to that blog, and to the two books we wrote with the publishing house Debate, which kindly entrusted us with reviewing the key challenges facing Spanish politics in the last decade: The Broken Urn (2014) and The Invisible Wall (2017). I hope that many of the problems and reforms (never implemented) we discussed in those books will be reflected in my work today.
Nowadays I live in Madrid, but I'll always be from Valencia, where I was born and raised, and a little bit from Bogotá, where I lived from 2016 to 2022 for family-life balance. During those years, I was extremely fortunate not only to get to know and enjoy a fabulous city and country, but also to participate in the public debate there, both through the Americas edition of El País and (when invited) in local media and other venues.
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