Leitner Seminar Series: Felipe Balcázar

Felipe Balcázar is Post-Doctoral Associate at the Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy. In 2025 he will join UCL’s Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy as an Assistant Professor. He specialize in International Political Economy (IPE) and Causal Inference, and develop game-theoretic models for guiding empirical analysis in IPE.

His main research focuses on investigating the impact of international trade and technological change (i.e., automation, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technologies), on collective action from labor and domestic political conflict. He also studies how these dimensions of international economic change, shape both redistributive policy and international policy.

Felipe Balcázar holds a PhD in Politics from the Department of Politics at New York University, an MA in Economics from Universidad de los Andes, and a BA in Economics from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Before graduate school he worked on policy-oriented research for the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank.