Academia

Current roles

Assistant Professor, Santiago, Chile, April 2023 — present
Centre for Comparative Education Policy (CPCE)
Faculty of Education – Diego Portales University

• Faculty member in the Doctorate in Higher Education (UDP/Leiden) and Doctorate in Education (UDP/UAH) programmes.
• Academic Director of the Master's Programme in Higher Education Institutions.
• Co-Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Comparative Higher Education Policies and Systems, directed by Dr José Joaquín Brunner (2026-2030).
• Principal Investigator, FONDECYT Initiation Project No. 11240460 (2024-2027). ‘Changes in academic management in Chile: Analysis of the participation of professional administrators and its impact on the academic profession.’
• Researcher member of the Program for Research on Private Higher Education (PROPHE).
• Member of the APIKS Chile team, ‘The Academic Profession in the Knowledge-Based Society’.

Memberships: Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER) 

Previous roles

• Co-researcher, FONDECYT Regular Project No. 1221758 (2022-2025). ‘Quality and academic impact of social sciences and humanities faculties: Organisational tensions in the evaluative context of academic capitalism.’

University Management

Academic Vice-Chancellor, Santiago, Chile, December 2021 — July 2022
Academic Vice-Chancellor's Office — San Sebastián University

Academic Director General, Santiago, Chile, July 2020 — December 2021
Academic Vice-Chancellor — San Sebastián University

Director General of Planning and Development, Valparaíso, Chile, 2009 — 2014
Federico Santa María Technical University

​Consultancy

Consultant in Governance and University Management, Santiago, Chile, 2014 — present
EDU3 Higher Education Consultancy

Government Programme Evaluator, Santiago, Chile, 2009
Budget Directorate, Ministry of Finance, Government of Chile

Public Management Consultant, Santiago, Chile, 2007 — 2009
Expanzion Consulting Group
IGT SA