Loreto Cox is an Assistant Professor at the School of Government at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC), where she studies political behavior, with a focus on public opinion and political institutions in Latin America. She earned her Ph.D. in political science from MIT and previously graduated as a commercial engineer specializing in economics and as a sociologist from UC. Her research interests extend to public policy, particularly in higher education, and she employs a variety of empirical methods, including surveys and experiments. Since 2020, she has contributed as a columnist for El Mercurio. Her work has been published in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and the Journal of Development Economics, among others.