Israel Banegas

Israel Banegas is a Mexican full-time researcher at the Development Studies University Program (PUED) and is an affiliated faculty at the Economics postgraduate program at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has a Ph.D. in Sociology and a master’s degree in Demography from El Colegio de Mexico, where he was awarded the Tokyo Foundation fellowship. His main academic interests are social policy, social indicators methodology, poverty and income inequality, and household welfare fluctuations.

His current research project analyzes the multidimensional nature of social exclusion in Mexico. He has served as invited faculty in multiple public universities in Mexico and Latin America. He is a member of numerous professional associations and he was president of the Mexican Network of Social Policy Scholars in 2016. He has authored and co-authored more than 40 academic and science outreach texts. With more than fifteen years of experience directing students research projects and dissertations, in all his academic endeavors he has underscored the importance transmitting the research know-how to future scholars. He is a full-time father of a teenage son, enjoys gardening and plays charango to show his son you are never too old to learn new things.