Alfredo Hernández Sánchez
Teaching Fellow
Research Master's in International Studies Coordinator
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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
Research
IBEI Research Clusters
Selected publications
- 2024.European solidarity and social class. An uneasy alliance.Journal of European Integration,1–24Link
- 2023.Corruption risks in public procurement through the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.Government Transparency Institute Working Paper series,GTI-WP/2023:03Link
- 2023.When vulnerabilities are exploited—The role of sextortion in the WASH sector in Bangladesh.Frontiers. Water,5:1048594Link
- 2023.Integrity Dividends: Procurement in the Water and Sanitation Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean.IDB Technical Note 2608,Link
- 2021.Transparency in nursing home services before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.Revista Española De Ciencia Política,57:77-109Link
- 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.Link - 2021.Networked Corruption Risks in European Defense Procurement.In:
Granados O.M., Nicolás-Carlock J.R. (eds)
.Corruption Networks. Concepts and Applications.Springer.Link
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