Juliana Martínez Franzoni

Juliana Martínez Franzoni is a full professor at the University of Costa Rica and a Georg Forster Awardee by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany, aimed at rewarding outstanding academic research trajectories in the global south. Her publications have attracted the attention of international specialists and are an international benchmark in the field of welfare regimes in Latin America. Her work has also served governments and international organizations such as ECLAC, ILO, UNICEF, and UNDP, agencies to which, over the years, she has offered technical assistance. Her research has also focused on the interaction between social and labor policies and on the interaction between work and family within the framework of welfare regimes. Her latest book is The Quest for Universal Social Policy in the South: Actors, Ideas and Architectures (Cambridge University Press, 2016 and Editorial de la UCR, 2019), written with Diego Sánchez-Ancochea (University of Oxford). She has published six other books alone or co-authored and published numerous articles in internationally indexed journals. Two of her ongoing research projects focuse on “Llights within the Shadow: Public and Community-Led Social Protection in Weak States” (with Diego Sánchez-Ancochea) and on “Beyond Rhetoric: Understanding Variations in Child Policy across the Global South” (with Merike Blofield). She is co-editor of Social Politics (Oxford University Press) and presidents of the ISA research committee on welfare and social policy (RC19). She combines academic research with technical assistance and policy advice to international organizations, governments and civil society organizations.