Dr Daniel H. Alves
About
Daniel H. Alves is an early-career political economist with a problem-oriented research agenda on political equality and shared prosperity. His works have contributed to interdisciplinary debates in comparative and international political economy and the politics of development, particularly with respect to the questions of what political factors shape economic inequality, how equity-enhancing reforms emerge, and why some social policies succeed in being enacted while others fail.
Currently, Daniel is the Project Coordinator of the Latin America and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR) at LSE and an Hourly-Paid Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy at King's College London. He received a PhD in Political Economy from King's in February 2025. His research has been published in Politics, Politics & Policy, and Latin America Research Review. Daniel has also written commentaries for Political Insight (with Mahrukh Doctor), LSE Inequalities Blog, King's Brazil Institute Blog, among others.
Daniel has extensive teaching and tutoring experience as a graduate teaching assistant and module convenor at King's and UCL, especially in international political economy, research methods in politics and international relations, comparative social policy, and Latin American politics and political economy. He has been an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2023 and has been nominated for the King's Education Awards (2025, 2023) and the King's School of Politics and Economics GTA Award (2023).
Key expertise: Latin American politics and political economy, Politics of development and inequality