HHB is glad to welcome Luis Bértola – Full Professor of Economic and Social History at the Department of Social Sciences of the Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay) – as a new HHB Researcher.

His main research topics are comparative long-run development, inequality, and living standards, with a focus on Latin America. Prof. Bértola is the coordinator of MOxLAD (Montevideo-Oxford Latin America Economic History Database), and is also member of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), of the Instituto Figuerola (Madrid), and of the Advisory Board of the Maddison Project.