Andrés Schipani holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Universidad de San Andrés, where he is also a member of the Center for Human Development Studies.

 

He is the author of "Pobreza: la grieta que importa. El ocaso de la Argentina integrada", forthcoming with Editorial Planeta. He is currently finalizing a book that analyzes the different models of social policy adopted in Latin America during the commodity boom of the 2000s. Together with Lara Forlino, he is the author of Mapa de Políticas Sociales en la Argentina, published by CIAS and Fundar. He is an affiliated researcher at the Center for Social Research and Action (CIAS).

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His research focuses on the political economy of social protection in Latin America. He has published work in several academic journals and presses, including Comparative Politics, Cornell University Press, Latin American Politics and Society, Desarrollo Económico, and Revista SAAP. His research has been recognized with the “Dorothy Day” Award for the best paper on labor politics from the American Political Science Association (APSA), selected as the best paper of 2022 by the Political Institutions Section of the Latin American Studies Association, and awarded an honorable mention at the REPAL Annual Conference.

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Previously, he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to pursue his doctoral studies in the United States. His research is or has been funded by the Center for Latin American Studies (UC Berkeley), the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (UC Berkeley), the Fund for Scientific and Technological Research (FONCYT), and the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET).