Luis Valverde Ramos
Lima, Perú
Political Scientist | Causal Inference & ML | Public Policy | Debate
What I work with
Experience
Researcher (part-time)
Feb. 2026 – Present
Lima, Peru
Leading the design and implementation of the First Survey on School Debate in Peru, establishing the first national evidence base on the state of school debate.
Research Assistant
Oct. 2025 – Feb. 2026
Lima, Peru
Assisted in econometric analysis of five projects — subnational reelection and corruption, subnational reelection and spending, media coverage in elections, perceived insecurity and migration, voting patterns in congress.
Consultant
Nov. 2025 – Dec. 2025
Lima, Peru
Was part of the technical team for three behavioral measurement instruments for the Peruvian electoral context, providing strategic inputs for the JNE's institutional policy.
Research Assistant
Sep. 2024 – Sep. 2025
Lima, Peru
Analyzed implementation gaps in over 60,000 municipal public works (2018–2024) for a project in collaboration with the Swiss Cooperation Agency.
Data Analysis Consultant
Jul. 2025 – Sep. 2025
Lima, Peru
Analyzed over 8,000 administrative records on rare diseases, cancer and high-cost medications in Peru (2019–2025).
Research Assistant
May. 2024 – Aug. 2024
Lima, Peru
Assisted in data processing and analysis for the identification of geographic patterns of the populist vote in Peru.
Research Intern
Feb. 2023 – Dec. 2023
Lima, Peru
Participated in the design and implementation of research projects on human rights, democracy and migration, coordinating with international organizations.
Projects
Disaster Reconstruction and Implementation Gaps in Peru
Undergraduate thesis (outstanding mention). Studied the reconstruction process of educational infrastructure in Piura (Jul 2020 – Jan 2023) after the Coastal El Niño phenomenon, analyzing the factors explaining implementation gaps in post-disaster public works.
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Municipal Public Works Gaps — ML Prediction
Led analysis of implementation gaps in 60,000+ municipal public works (2018–2024). Applied supervised Machine Learning (XGBoost, SHAP values) to predict implementation gaps at the subnational level and identify key underperformance factors.
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2025
Disasters and Implementation Gaps: Study of the Educational Infrastructure Reconstruction Process in Piura (July 2020 – January 2023) after the Coastal El Niño Phenomenon
Analyzes the factors explaining implementation gaps in post-disaster educational public works in the Piura region.
2023
Climate Emergency and Human Rights: Writing on the Advisory Opinion to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Collective volume co-edited on climate emergency and human rights, submitted to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
October 31, 2023
The Humanitarian Catastrophe of Disappearance in Peru: Challenges for the Search Policy for Missing Persons
Analysis of the institutional and policy challenges surrounding the search for missing persons in Peru, published on the Day of the Dead.