David Altman

Board member

Areas: Democracy and Anticorruption

He is an academic and professor at the Institute of Political Science of the Universidad Católica de Chile. He did his undergraduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received his Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Notre Dame, U.S.A. His research and teaching interests are in the field of comparative politics with an emphasis on democracy, with a focus on its quality, institutions, performance and innovations.

He is the author of Citizenship and Contemporary Direct Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Direct Democracy Worldwide (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He has co-authored over sixty articles in leading social science journals, as well as chapters in edited volumes. He is line director of the collaborative project "Varieties of Democracy" and is currently the Director of the V-Dem Regional Center for Latin America.