Madai Urteaga Quispe

Madai Urteaga Quispe is a political scientist whose research is focused on the political economy of rural policies and state building in Latin America.

At the Kellogg Institute, Urteaga-Quispe will work on her book project “Agrarian Developmentalism: The Politics of Development Strategies in Latin America,” which examines why some countries adopt pro-agricultural development strategies while industrializing, whereas others discriminate against the sector. She mainly focuses on Colombia and Chile.

Urteaga-Quispe has been published in Comparative Political Studies and Comparative Politics, and her work has received awards from the Latin American Political Economy Network (REPAL) and the American Political Science Association’s Comparative Politics Section.

She holds a PhD in political science from Harvard University and BA in political science from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.