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Alfredo Hernández Sánchez

Alfredo Hernandez

Teaching Fellow

Research Master's in International Studies Coordinator

Biography

Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez is a Teaching Fellow at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacinals (IBEI) where he teaches courses on Data Visualization, Policy Evaluation and Quantitative Research Methods. His research interests include Computational Social Sciences, Quantitative Text Analysis and International Political Economy. He is currently working on developing transparency metrics using Big Data methods and identifying speech patterns in foreign policy corpora using NLP algorithms. His reserach has appeared in edited volumes by Springer, Bloomsbury and Emerald. He also works on policy papers and evaluations with several organizations such as UNESCO, WIN and the IADB.

Background and education

  • (2020) PhD, Central European University

Courses

Research

IBEI Research Clusters

Selected publications

  • Fazekas, Mihály; Hernandez Sanchez, Alfredo; Abdou, Aly; Kofrán, Daniel

    .    2023.Corruption risks in public procurement through the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.Government Transparency Institute Working Paper series,GTI-WP/2023:03LinkLogo open access

  • Merkle, Ortrun; Allakulov, Umrbek; Gonzalez, Debora; Hernandez Sanchez, Alfredo; E. Rabbi, Sifat; Hasan, Zobair

    .    2023.When vulnerabilities are exploited—The role of sextortion in the WASH sector in Bangladesh.Frontiers. Water,5:1048594LinkLogo open access

  • Adam, Isabelle; Fazekas, Mihály; Hernandez Sanchez, Alfredo; Horn, Peter & Regös, Nóra

    .    2023.Integrity Dividends: Procurement in the Water and Sanitation Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean.IDB Technical Note 2608,LinkLogo open access

  • Perez Duran, Ixchel; Hernandez Sanchez, Alfredo

    .    2021.Transparency in nursing home services before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.Revista Española De Ciencia Política,57:77-109LinkLogo open access

  • Hernandez Sanchez, Alfredo; Fazekas, Mihaly

    .    2021.Emergency Procurement: The Role of Big Open Data.In:

    S. Arrowsmith, L. Butler, A. L. Chimia and C. Yukins (eds.)

    .    Public Procurement in (a) Crisis: global lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.Hart Publishing.LinkLogo open access

  • Czibik, Ágnes; Fazekas, Mihály; Hernandez Sanchez, Alfredo; Wachs, Johannes

    .    2021.Networked Corruption Risks in European Defense Procurement.In:

    Granados O.M., Nicolás-Carlock J.R. (eds)

    .    Corruption Networks. Concepts and Applications.Springer.Link
All publications

Press clippings

Documents

Conferences and talks

Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez, Mihaly Fazekas, Umrbek Allakulov, Joshua Aje. (2020) Water and Sanitation Sector Integrity Risk Index. Second International Conference "Water, Megacities and Global Change". UNESCO. Available here