Juan Armando Torres Munguía
Juan Armando is a Researcher in the Managing Exits from Armed Conflict initiative at UNIDIR.
His expertise focuses on the use of statistical methods to identify risk factors for poverty, crime, violence, and armed conflict.
He holds a PhD in Applied Statistics from the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, a Master in Applied Statistics from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, and a Bachelor in Economics from the Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila.
Prior to joining UNIDIR, Juan Armando was a data analyst at the Regional Office for Central America, North America and the Caribbean of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and a statistical consultant at the UN Women’s Global Centre of Excellence on Gender Statistics (CEGS) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Center of Excellence for Statistical Information on Government, Crime, Victimization and Justice (CdE-UNODC).