Guillermo Cruces (PhD in Economics, LSE) is Professor of Economics at the Universidad de San Andrés in Argentina, and Professor of Economics at the University of Nottingham. He is also a Researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), and a Senior Researcher at the Center for Distributive, Labor and Social Studies (CEDLAS) at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina (UNLP). His research is focused on labour and public economics and distributional analysis in Latin America and the Caribbean, and on the economics of perceptions and reference groups in general.

He has published in journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, American Economic Review Insights, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics and Economic Policy, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Labour Economics, and Journal of Population Economics, and he has edited books and contributed to collective volumes and reports. He has worked previously for the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions and for the Development Studies Division of the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and he served as Argentina's Under-Secretary for Development. He has also been a researcher at STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science, where he obtained an MSc and a PhD in Economics, and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s DRCLAS. He is affiliated with CEPR, IFS and JPAL.