Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and NBER faculty research fellow (DEV/PE). His research agenda is in political economy, development economics, and culture and economics. He also uses tools of moral psychology to study violence motivations. Most of his fieldwork is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he co-founded Marakuja Kivu Research. In 2023-2024, he was voted Outstanding Faculty of the Year by Harris students, and was also voted to deliver the “Harris Last Lecture,” a graduation speech. In the last few years, he co-taught PhD-level Political Economy of Development with Eduardo Montero, Economics, Politics, and African Societies with James Robinson, and a Master-level Power and “Development.“ In 2019, he was featured in award-winning documentary Congo Calling (The Guardian) directed by Stephan Hilpert. He recently started working in the Mediterranean, including Sicily, and with Palestinian refugees in Egypt.
