About Me

 

 

I was initially educated in Economics and Planning and Development, in some of Latin America’s best higher education institutes, - including United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America - and gained four years’ professional public management experience as a young civil servant in Argentina’s democratic transition government. I moved back to Spain after competitively winning a scholarship to study at the nation’s premier provider of education on public management, the National Institute of Public Administration. Combining post-graduate study with lecturing posts and the taking up of the competitively-awarded Andrew W. Mellow Foundation Scholarship at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan, I achieved maximum results when obtaining my PhD from the University of Alcalá in 1992. Since then, I have consolidated my academic position reaching Full Professor at the University of Cantabria from 2011. This has been interwoven with securing competitively-awarded Fellowships at world-class institutions, including “Fleming Fellow” at St Antony’s College, Oxford, “Salvador de Madariaga” at the European University Institute, “Mario Einaudi” Innovation Scholarship at Cornell University, and Spanish Ministry of Education Scholarship at the London School of Economics. Grounded in Economics and Planning, with strong quantitative skills, my research interests lie primarily in economics policy, public management, public sector reform, public policy and development, as evidenced through my track record of publications in leading journals in the field and my leadership in university management and research.