The Department of International Development is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Kirsten Sehnbruch as Visiting Associate Professor in the Department.
Her appointment formally commences in September 2015, after which she will join the LSE for one term each year to undertake teaching and research.
Dr Sehnbruch is the director of the Public Policy Institute at the Universidad Diego Portales and an associate researcher and founding board member of the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion with responsibility for the Centre’s International Relations. Before this, she was a research fellow at the Department of Economics at the University of Chile and a lecturer and Senior Scholar at the University of California, at Berkeley.
Before this, she was a lecturer and Senior Scholar at the University of California, at Berkeley. Her research focuses on the quality of employment, Latin American labour markets, social policy and development policy, and Chilean politics.
Her articles have been published by The Cambridge Journal of Economics, Development and Change, and the International Labour Review. She is the author of The Chilean Labor Market: A Key to Understanding Latin American Labor Markets (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), and editor (with Peter Siavelis) of Democratic Chile: The Politics and Policies of a Historic Coalition, 1990-2010 (Lynne Rienner, 2014).
She is currently working on a book on the quality of employment in developing countries, a subject on which she presented during a special seminar delivered at LSE in February 2015.
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It is hoped this appointment will facilitate increased research cooperation between the Department of International Development at LSE and the centre that Dr Sehnbruch directs, as well as with the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion, both in Santiago.