Javier Fuenzalida is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Public Policy and a Career Development Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government. He is also a Senior Member at St Antony’s College.

His research focuses on public management, mainly studying public servants’ attitudes and behaviour and how they are affected by civil service reforms, management practices, and future-of-work trends. Also, Javier studies the effectiveness of performance management regimes and the use of performance information in the public sector. He teaches courses on public management and policy, research methods, applied statistics, and performance management.

The research projects Javier works on regularly involve partnerships with governments and international organisations such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the International Labour Organization (ILO) and UNICEF. They have translated into numerouspolicy publications and opinion articles.

Javier completed his PhD in Public Administration at the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University, and holds an MA in Management and Public Policy and a BSc in Industrial Engineering from the University of Chile. 

Before taking up his current role, Javier was Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Government at the University of Chile. Previously, he was Research Director of the Centre for Public Systems at the University of Chile’s Industrial Engineering Department, and Assistant Director of the National Center for Public Performance at Rutgers. He was also a Board Member of the Chilean Society of Public Policy.