Introduction
Roberto Stefan Foa is University Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. His research examines quality of government, regimes, and comparative social indicators. He is also interested in research methodology, including comparative survey work, index construction and design, geospatial analysis, and multi-method research. Roberto's academic work has been published in a wide range of top journals, and has been cited in publications including The Economist, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Guardian and The Atlantic.
Roberto graduated from the University of Oxford in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (BA), and completed his Ph.D. at the Harvard University Department of Government, during which time he published three articles rated by the Web of Science as among the top 1% highest impact in their fields. He has served as a Peter Martin Fellow at the Financial Times and was designer of the Indices of Social Development at the World Bank (www.indsocdev.org), a global resource combining more than 25 data sources that measure social institutions such as trust, tolerance, social discrimination, and inclusion. He has also served as a consultant to the United Nations, the Africa Progress Panel, and the European Council for Tolerance and Reconciliation. He is a member of the Oxford Altius Society and a Principal Investigator of the World Values Surveys.
Expert
Roberto Stefan Foa is University Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. His research examines quality of government, regimes, and comparative social indicators. He is also interested in research methodology, including comparative survey work, index construction and design, geospatial analysis, and multi-method research. Roberto's academic work has been published in a wide range of top journals, and has been cited in publications including The Economist, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Guardian and The Atlantic.
Roberto graduated from the University of Oxford in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (BA), and completed his Ph.D. at the Harvard University Department of Government, during which time he published three articles rated by the Web of Science as among the top 1% highest impact in their fields. He has served as a Peter Martin Fellow at the Financial Times and was designer of the Indices of Social Development at the World Bank (www.indsocdev.org), a global resource combining more than 25 data sources that measure social institutions such as trust, tolerance, social discrimination, and inclusion. He has also served as a consultant to the United Nations, the Africa Progress Panel, and the European Council for Tolerance and Reconciliation. He is a member of the Oxford Altius Society and a Principal Investigator of the World Values Surveys.
Fields of expertise: Economic policy / inclusive economic development, Inclusive social development / inclusive societies / social inclusion, Social change / social transformations, Sustainable Development Goals