Daphne Alvarez

Daphne is a researcher and consultant on geopolitics and the political economy of illegality and conflict. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) and was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Oxford. She is particularly interested in hybrid threats, forms of institutional capture, as well as the influence of current great power competition on democracies and the rule of law in the Global South. 

Daphne has worked as a consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank. She is currently a non-resident Associate Researcher at Fedesarrollo think tank (Colombia), in which role she moderated the side event “Latin America in the Zeitenwende” at the 2024 Munich Security Conference. She has been a consulted expert for the Capacity to Combat Corruption Index developed by the Americas Society/Council of the Americas and Control Risks, and has participated in regional cooperation forums such as the Latin American Laboratory of Integrity and Transparency Policies, where she was a member of the technical committee.