Guillaume Fontaine

Since 2001 I have been working as a researcher and post-graduate professor at the Latin American Faculty for Social Sciences (FLACSO), at Quito (Ecuador). FLACSO is an international organization created by UNESCO in 1956, with representation in 13 countries. 

I own a Doctor's degree in Sociology from the University of Paris 3, and a Post-Doc habilitation to conduct research in Political Science from the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences-Po), Paris.

I have created the Comparative Policy Lab as a research and practice organization dedicated to promoting a design framework to deal with complex policy problems. We use a realist approach based on multi-methods combining QCA, process tracing and congruence analysis for small-n comparative policy. Our areas of intervention include corruption control, chronic child malnutrition, public administration reforms, post-carbon energy transition, and environmental governance in Latin America and the Caribbean.

I have recently co-authored Tackling Corruption in Latin America: An Institutional Approach (with A. Hernández-Luis, T. Milan and C. Rodrigues, Palgrave McMillan 2023), and The Politics of Public Accountability (with C. Medrano and I. Narváez, Palgrave McMillan, 2020)

I am also the co-editor (with B. Guy Peters) of The Handbook of Methods for Research and Practice in Comparative Policy Analysis (Edward Elgar, 2020), and The Research Handbook of Policy Design (Edward Elgar, 2022).