Joaquín is a Visiting Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He holds a PhD in Social Policy from the LSE. He holds a BA in Industrial Engineering, an MSc in Economic and Environmental Management and postgraduate studies in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He was Vice-Director of the TECHO Foundation (2002-2003) and Advisor to the Executive Board of Chilean National Television between 2004 and 2011. He founded and directed the Social Observatory Centre at the Alberto Hurtado University between 2005 and 2012. Since 2012 he has worked as a researcher and consultant for international organisations such as the OECD, IDB, Rand Corporation and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. His current research interests include measures of economic and social well-being, inequality and income mobility, quality of employment and labour mobility, geography of opportunity and spatial analysis, and applied microeconometrics and social policy.