Heather Marquette
Professor, University of Birmingham & DFID
Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes
Dr. Weintraub is Associate Professor in the Escuela de Gobierno Alberto Lleras Camargo at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, Director of the Security and Violence Area of the Center for the Study of Security and Drugs (CESED) at the same university, and Senior Researcher at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).
His research agenda focuses on crime and political violence in Latin America, particularly in Colombia, Central America, and Mexico. He is also interested in historical legacies of violence and how they affect contemporary outcomes. To study these and other topics he uses a combination of primarily experimental and quasi-experimental methods.
While he wrote his dissertation on Colombia, and lives in Bogotá, he also studies Mexico and the three countries in the so-called “Northern Triangle” of Central America: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
Prior to graduate school, he worked for three years on human rights and development, primarily in East and Southern Africa.