Daniel Brieba is an LSE fellow in Political Science and Public Policy. Daniel is an alumnus from our own MPA in Public and Economic Policy programme. In addition to the MPA, he holds a DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford, where he studied at Nuffield College. His thesis on state capacity in Latin America earned the Sir Walter Bagehot Prize for best dissertation in the field of Government and Public Administration (awarded by the Political Studies Association). Before joining LSE, Daniel worked as an Assistant Professor at the School of Government in the Adolfo Ibáñez University in Santiago, Chile.  

Daniel’s research focuses on the effects of state capacity in Latin America, bureaucratic politics, electoral behaviour, and liberal egalitarian political thought. He has published in journals such as World Development, Latin American Politics & Society and Water International. He has also co-authored a book on liberalism (in Spanish) with Andrés Velasco.