Federico Fuchs is a Departmental Lecturer in the Comparative Politics of Latin America at the Department of Politics and International Relations and the School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford. His research interests concentrate on the political economy of formal and informal labour markets in Latin America. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he specialized in comparative politics and research methods. Before joining Oxford, he was a Research Associate at Cardiff Business School and an LSE Fellow in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science.