Research project
FIRSA
Research on how European regulators respond to financial innovation through sandboxes, policy learning, and institutional change.
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Alfredo Hernández Sánchez
I am a computational social scientist and applied policy researcher working on financial governance, regulatory experimentation, and anti-corruption. I am currently working on capacity building against illicit financial flows and previously held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie ERA Fellowship at Vilnius University. Alongside research, I write technical tutorials on open-source software and analytical pieces on the global political economy.
My most recent project, FIRSA, examined how European regulators respond to financial innovation, with a focus on regulatory sandboxes and policy learning. I have also worked as a consultant on projects involving international organisations and policy-facing partners, and I have extensive teaching and training experience in quantitative methods, text analysis, data visualization, and open-source analytical tools across academic and policy settings.
Featured work
Research, open tools, and teaching resources.
Open data tool
Water Integrity Risk Index
An interactive tool for exploring water-sector integrity risks and comparing patterns across countries and indicators.
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Circumscribed Disruption: FinTech Narratives in Central Banking
How central bankers frame FinTech in 789 BIS speeches, published in New Political Economy. Innovation is welcomed as long as it stays within existing stability and oversight frameworks.
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