Joaquín Prieto

Joaquín Prieto is a Visiting Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute (III) at the London School of Economics (LSE) and leads the Diploma in Advanced Methods in Statistics and Data Science at the Faculty of Government, University of Chile. His research focuses on developing new economic and social well-being measures aimed at designing more inclusive and sustainable policies, particularly for emerging economies.

 

His work spans three main research areas: i) forward-looking well-being measures, such as vulnerability to poverty and economic insecurity; ii) spatial inequality measures, including the geography of opportunity; iii) labor market development, with an emphasis on the quality of employment.

 

Joaquín is a member of the WAPLAC Network (Welfare and Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean), the Quality of Employment group at the III, the WEIPO group (Wellbeing, Inequality, Poverty, and Public Policy) at the University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain, and the Work and Employment Thematic Group of the Human Development and Capability Association.

 

He holds a PhD in Social Policy from LSE, a BA in Industrial Engineering, an MSc in Economy and Environmental Management, and postgraduate studies in Sociology from the Universidad Católica in Chile. Before joining LSE, he founded and directed the Social Observatory at Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Chile, which specialized in longitudinal data for the design, implementation, and monitoring of social policies. Additionally, Joaquín has worked as a consultant for the OECD, the IADB, the ILO, and Rand Corporation, and as a research fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

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