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Fernando Hoces de la Guardia

Staff Scientist

Fernando Hoces de la Guardia is an Assistant Project Scientist with the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), leading the development of a broad agenda for transparency and reproducibility for policy analysis. He also conducts meta-research (research on research) focused on identifying and promoting best practices for transparency and reproducibility in research. He has supported several BITSS-led trainings in the past. Fernando did his PhD in Public Policy at RAND where his dissertation focused on increasing the transparency and reproducibility of policy analysis as a way to strengthen connections between policy and evidence. Before his PhD, he studied economics (U. of Chile BA and Masters + UPenn MA) and worked in public policy conducting impact evaluations and economic analysis of various social policies.

Areas of work
Transparency
Status
Current