Professional Affiliation

Associate Professor, Universidad Diego Portales

Expert Bio

Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser is Associate Professor of Political Science at Diego Portales University in Santiago, Chile. Before joining Diego Portales University, he was a Marie-Curie Research Fellow at the University of Sussex and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) in Germany. He is the co-author (with Cas Mudde) of Populism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017) and the co-editor (together with Paul Taggart, Paulina Ochoa Espejo and Pierre Ostiguy) of The Oxford Handbook of Populism (Oxford University Press, 2017). He has published articles in Comparative European Politics, Democratization, Government & Opposition, Latin American Research Review, Party Politics, and Political Studies among others. He received his Ph.D. from the Humboldt University of Berlin.