Alfredo Hernández Sánchez
Postdoctoral Fellow
Alfredo is an MSCA-ERA Postdoctoral Fellow at Vilnius University's Institute of International Relations and Political Science. His research interests include anti-corruption and public integrity, international political economy, data science, and financial regulation. His work has been published in the Journal of Aging and Social Policy, the Journal of European Integration, and the Spanish Journal of Political Science, among others. He authored numerous working and technical papers with international organizations including the Inter-American Development Bank and Transparency International. He has taught various courses on Quantitative Research Methods, Data Science, and International Political Economy at various instutions such as the Barcelona Institute of International Studies and the American University of Central Asia.
Vytautas Kuokštis
Associate Professor
Vytautas is Associate Professor and Chief Researcher at Vilnius University's Institute of International Relations and Political Science. His research interests focus on comparative and international political economy, especially on FinTech, growth models, and military expenditure. His work has been published or is forthcoming in JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Political Science Research and Methods, European Journal of Political Economy, Party Politics, Post-Soviet Affairs, Regulation & Governance, Policy & Politics, European Security, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Journal of Baltic Studies, European Journal of Law and Economics, International Review of Administrative Sciences, among others.He teaches courses on introductory economics, international economics, international political economy, public economics, and causal inference at Vilnius University.