Enrique Delamonica

Enrique Delamonica is the Senior Adviser Statistics and Monitoring for Child Poverty and Gender Equality in UNICEF. He is an economist and political scientist educated at the University of Buenos Aires, the Institute for Economic and Social Development, Columbia University, and the New School for Social Research. He was a policy analyst at UNICEF’s Headquarters, the Social and Economic Policy Regional Advisor at UNICEF’s Office for Latin America and The Caribbean, and the Chief of Social Policy and Gender Equality at UNICEF Nigeria.
Throughout these years, he has focused on poverty reduction and human development strategies, social protection, socioeconomic disparities, child poverty, financing social services, including voices of children in local evaluation and governance, equity, and the impact of macro-economic trends on child welfare.
He has written and co-edited books and articles on economic development, children’s rights, child participation, social protection, macroeconomic trends impacting on children, socioeconomic disparities, the green economy, quality of life, social exclusion and discrimination, and financing social services - always focused on improving the lives of children, adolescents, and their families.
He has also taught economics, international economic and political development, policy analysis and politics of policymaking, statistics, and research methods at, among other places, New York University, Columbia University, the New School for Social Research, and Saint Peter’s College (New Jersey). He was a Fellow of the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty of the International Social Science Council between 2010 and 2018. Currently he is at the board of the Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy of the International Sociological Association.