Dr. Carlos Moreno Jaimes
Principal investigator
carlos.moreno1@austin.utexas.edu ; cmoreno@iteso.mx
Carlos Moreno-Jaimes holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Texas at Austin, a Master’s degree in Public Policy from The University of Chicago, and a Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from El Colegio de México. He has been a visiting researcher at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and at the Public Policy and Government Institute at the Universidad de Guadalajara. In the late nineties, he worked as an associate professor at CIDE (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas), where he was also appointed Director of the Master’s Program in Public Policy and Administration. He specializes in healthcare policy, public spending decentralization, and local governance in Mexico, with a particular emphasis on performance evaluation. Carlos has been a consultant for several international agencies such as The World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and many other public institutions in Mexico. Since 2005, Carlos is a full-time research professor at ITESO, in Guadalajara.
Dr. Alfonso Rojas-Alvarez
Co-investigator
Alfonso is a senior data scientist and researcher on the intersection between environmental economics and public health outcomes. At UT Austin, he is a lecturer on quantitative methods, statistics, and programming. He also does data science consulting for the LBJ School of Public Affairs student body. Alfonso holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy and a Master in Statistics from The University of Texas at Austin, and a Master of Public Policy with a focus on Applied Econometrics from the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2013, he has worked in housing and urban policy, public health, research design, and data science at several research centers at UC Berkeley, Harvard University, and UT Austin. Before moving to the United States, Rojas-Alvarez was an adviser to the Minister of the Presidency of Costa Rica and an adviser to the Minister of Tourism. Since 2007, he has been a regular op-ed columnist at Costa Rica’s premier newspaper, La Nación, where he writes about evidence-based policies and current events. Finally, he works as a data innovation consultant in Costa Rica, the U.S., and Mexico.
