Andrés Fernández is a senior researcher at the University of Costa Rica with a Bachelor of Economics and Msc. in Statistics from the University of Costa Rica. He also holds the Micro Master certificate in Data, Economics and Development Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has carried out various investigations on issues of poverty, economic inequality, education, among others. His academic reports have been published in the Journal of Economic Sciences (UCR), State of the Nation, State of the Justice and State of Education Reports, of the State of the Nation Program, CEPAL Review, Spanish Journal of Statistics and Dimensions Magazine of OPHI of the University of Oxford , from where he also received the recognition of Research of excellence in the fight against poverty (Poverty Initiative and Human Development of Oxford).