Juan David Gelvez
Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Maryland.
Washington, DC.
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About me:
Welcome! I am a Ph.D. Candidate and Researcher at the University of Maryland (UMD).
I study comparative political behavior and public policy with a focus on Latin America. My research examines crime, illicit drugs, and climate disasters, and I use and develop methods to draw causal inferences from experimental and observational data as well as machine learning approaches.
My work has been published in Nature:HSSC, Social Science Quarterly, Policing & Society, Latin American Politics and Society, among other journals.
I have served as a research faculty (pre-doctoral fellow) at Georgetown University, as a research consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank, and as a policymaker at Colombia’s National Planning Department. I was born and raised in Colombia, where I earned a Master’s in Public Policy and a B.S. in Government and Public Affairs from Universidad de los Andes.
You can find my CV (in English) here.
Mi hoja de vida (en español) se puede descargar aquí.
Contact me
Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland.
3140 Tydings Hall, 7343 Preinkert Drive, College Park, MD 20742
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