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.