Marco De la Cruz

Employment

• International Institute of Administrative Sciences Scientific Director
  2026 - Present
• KU Leuven Substitute Lecturer (Digital Public Governance)
  2026 - 2027
• International Review of Administrative Sciences Interim Journal Manager
  2025 - 2025
• Ipsos (Belgium) Senior Research Expert
  2023 - 2025
• KU Leuven PhD Researcher (Public Governance Institute)
  2019 - 2023
• Gestiona y Aprende Public Management & Evaluation Manager
  2014 - 2017

Education

• KU Leuven Master in Statistics and Data Science
  2022 - 2024
• KU Leuven Doctoral degree
  2019 - 2023
• Universiteit Antwerpen Master of Development Evaluation and Management
  2017 - 2018
• Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Bachelor
  2005 - 2010

Projects & Funding

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Publications (19)

• Long-Term Persistence of Income Poverty: Evidence from Belgium
  Anna Mergoni, Marco De la Cruz, Ides Nicaise

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  • Anna Ruelens
  2026 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-10089721/v1
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• Non-Cognitive Skills and Mathematics Achievement AcrossEurope: Evidence from PISA 2022
  Marco De la Cruz, Anna Mergoni
  2026 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-10057962/v1
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• Más allá de la productividad, resistir bajo presión climática: Evidencia comparativa sobre transiciones agroecológicas en la agricultura familiar altoandina
  diana santos, Antezana Eliana, Marco De la Cruz
  Oxfam 2026 DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.36610.44480
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• Unlocking the Value of Data Governance in Developing Countries: A Framework for Public Administration
  Marco De la Cruz, Evrim Tan, Paula Muñoz

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  • Carlos Casas
  THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 2025 DOI: 10.1002/isd2.70043
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• Public Administration and Education Reforms in Peru: Between Crisis Adaptation and Structural Change
  IAS-DARPG India Conference 2025 2025
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• Educational Efficiency Beyond Inputs: Bringing Governance into the Model
  IASIA 2025 Conference, Shaping the Future of Governance: Transforming Mindsets, Enhancing Skills, and Expanding Knowledge 2025
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• Exploring a Non-Parametric “Benefit of the Doubt” Approach for Identifying Low-Quality Responses in Probability and Non-Probability Online Panel Surveys
  AAPOR 80th Annual Conference 2025
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• A Non-Parametric Approach for Identifying Low-Quality Responses in Online Panels
  10th LEER Conference on Education Economics 2025
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• Applying a Non-Parametric “Benefit of the Doubt” Approach for Identifying Low-Quality Responses in Online Panels
  Conference on New Techniques and Technologies for official Statistics 2025 2025
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• Performance Complexity. Governance Systems and Education Outcomes in Peru
  KU Leuven Public Governance Institute 2025
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• Assessing the performance of Peruvian education system from a governance perspective
  Marco De la Cruz, Anna Mergoni
  Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2024.101891
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• Is associativity the key? Unraveling power dynamics in rural trading using an ‘intertwining approach’
  Tropentag 2023: Competing pathways for equitable food systems transformation: Trade-offs and synergies 2023
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• Latent Semantic in Performance Governance (LDA algorithm application)
  EGPA Conference 2022 – Public Administration for the Sustainable Future of our Societies, 6-9 Sep, Lisbon, Portugal 2022
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• Text Mining application to understand Performance Governance in Education
  EAIR Forum 2022 2022
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• Beyond institutional bricolage: An ‘intertwining approach’ to understanding the transition towards agroecology in Peru
  Marco De La Cruz S., Joost Dessein
  Ecological Economics 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107091
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• Europe and Central Asia – Sustainable Development Goals in European Public Administration Institutes: Mainstreaming or Decoupling?
  Changing Mindsets to Realize the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. How to promote new mindsets and behaviors in public institutions to implement the Sustainable Development Goals 2021
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• Political ideology and attitudes toward mining in Peru
  Liberabit 2016
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• Necesidades de desarrollo en funcionarios de la Municipalidad de Villa El Salvador
  2016
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• Personas refugiadas hoy en Costa Rica, sus voces, retos y oportunidades
  UNHCR 2012
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