Alicia Del Aguila is the Panama office´s Program Manager.

She has extensive experience as an international cooperation expert⁠—including in multilateral agencies⁠— as well as researcher and academic. Her main themes are electoral systems; gender equality; inclusive democracy; and political history.

She is the author of more than 20 books or chapter books and has published various academic and newspaper articles.

Del Aguila rejoined International IDEA in August 2022 as a Programme Officer in Latin America and the Caribbean office. Previously, Del Aguila had worked at IDEA in its Andean region office (2007-06/2014), and in Global Programmes as a Gender & Democracy officer (2014).

She was also a Development Officer at Global Affairs Canada-Embassy to Peru; Advocacy Officer at UNFPA; and consultant for UNDP, ILO, among others. Also, Del Aguila worked as a country expert for Varieties of Democracies, assessing contemporary democracy in Peru, and then in the Historical V-Dem project (XIX-XX Centuries).

PhD in Social Science from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Mayor, Perú (summa cum laude). Master in Social Science, major in politics, from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales-FLACSO, México, and Sociologist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Her doctoral tesis, La ciudadanía corporativa. Política, constituciones y sufragio en el Perú, was pointed out among the best annual books on Peruvian History (Academics survey, 2013).

She is a member of the #NoSinMujeres Network of Political Scientists and the Editorial Board of the French Institute of Andean Studies (IFEA).