Professor Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
Head of the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA) and Professor of the Political Economy of Development, Oxford Department of International Development
About
Professor Sánchez-Ancochea’s research focuses on the costs of income inequality and some of the ways to reduce it. He is particularly interested in the determinants of universal social policy, particularly in Latin America, as well as public policy more generally.
He collaborates regularly with international institutions like the United Nations Development Program and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Expertise
- Socio-economic inequality
- Social policy
- Latin American politics and economics
- Developing countries
- Public policy
Selected publications
- Emergency Responses to COVID-19 and Opportunities for Inclusive Social Policy (2024)
- Can Powerful Dictators Escape ‘The Market as Prison’? The Case of Pension Privatisation in Pinochet's Chile (2024)
- Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South (2022)
- The Political Economy of Segmented Expansion: Latin American Social Policy in the 2000s (2022)
- The Costs of Inequality in Latin America: Lessons and Warnings for the Rest of the World (Bloomsbury, 2020)
- The Surprising Reduction of Inequality during a Commodity Boom: What Do we Learn from Latin America? (2019)
- The Quest for Universal Social Policy in the South: Actors, Ideas and Architectures (2016)
Media experience
Professor Sanchez-Ancochea has experience of national and international print and broadcast media (both in English and Spanish) and of briefing journalists.
Languages
Spanish, English