Andrea Fernanda Segovia Marin

Andrea Segovia is a first-year MPhil student in Politics: Comparative Government at the Department of Politics and International Relations. Her research interests include civil wars, armed actors’ local governance, and illicit economies, with a secondary line of research on Peruvian democracy. Her current dissertation project theorises post-conflict trajectories in rebel-controlled areas.

Prior to Oxford, she graduated with highest honours from a BA in Political Science and Government at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). She also holds a Licentiate Degree in Political Science (Comparative Politics) with a distinction thesis exploring armed actors’ governance institutions’ emergence and resilience in the drug-producing Alto Huallaga region during the Peruvian internal armed conflict. This project received funding from PUCP’s Social Sciences Department (2022) and won the Economic and Social Research Consortium’s (CIES) Best Thesis Summary Award (2023) and Award for Paper in Indexed Journal (2025).

She has collaborated on projects affiliated with Tulane University, Vanderbilt University, and PUCP, covering topics including illegal mining, civilian resistance in conflict, drug-crime, corruption, social mobilisation, and democratisation. She has worked as a Teaching Assistant for undergraduate courses in Political Economy and Comparative Political Analysis at PUCP’s Social Sciences Department. Outside academia, she has served as a research assistant at Peru’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the General Directorate for Africa, Middle East, and Gulf Countries.

Andrea is a native Spanish speaker. She is also proficient English, French, and Portuguese, and knows intermediate Quechua.