Professor at Universidad del Pacífico Academic Department of Social and Political Sciences and researcher at CIUP. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Montreal (Canada) with a doctoral fellowship from the Trudeau Foundation, a Master's degree in Political Science from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) and a bachelor's degree in Law from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

He completed post-doctoral studies at Harvard University (USA). He has served as a professor in charge of courses on Latin American politics in the Departments of Political Science of the University of Montreal, Harvard and Siences-po (Paris and Poitiers campus). His research has focused mainly on the Andean countries observing different dimensions of the political regime: citizenship, representation, technocracies, accountability, subnational powers, among others.

His academic research has appeared in the Latin American Research Review, the Journal of Democracy, the Journal of Politics in Latin America, among others. He is the author of two books: "La Danza Hostil: Poderes subnacionales y Estado Central en Bolivia y Perú, (1952-2012)" ("The Hostile Dance: Subnational Powers and the Central State in Bolivia and Peru, (1952-2012)") and "Ni amnésicos ni irracionales. Las elecciones de 2006 en perspectiva histórica". ("Neither amnesic nor irrational. The 2006 elections in historical perspective.") With Carlos Meléndez he co-edited the book "La Iniciación de la política. El Perú político en perspectiva comparada". ("The Initiation of politics. Political Peru in comparative perspective".) His essays and political articles have been compiled in the book "Ciudadanos sin República" ("Citizens without a Republic").