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Pedro Antenucci Benesch

Policy Leader Fellow

Florence School of Transnational Governance

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pedro.antenucci@eui.eu

Pedro Antenucci Benesch

Policy Leader Fellow

Florence School of Transnational Governance

Biography

Pedro is an Argentine political scientist and quantitative researcher working on electoral integrity, public opinion, and the use of data to strengthen democratic institutions. He is co-founder and Research Director of AgentIA, Survey Scientist at Survey 160, and Associate Researcher in the State and Government programme at CIPPEC, where since 2015 he has co-authored Argentina's longest-running series of forensic audits of national elections.

That work produced the country's first electoral reliability map, covering all 24 districts and more than 100,000 polling stations, and a practitioner manual on election forensics. His research also examines how voting instruments shape behaviour, from a quasi-experimental evaluation of electronic voting to a study of provincial reforms that informed Argentina's 2025 move to a single ballot. He previously directed electoral statistics at the Ministry of Government of the Province of Buenos Aires, and taught for eight years at San Andrés University.

As a Policy Leader Fellow, Pedro is working on the "Integrity Gap": the distance between perceptions of fraud and the forensic reality of electoral administration. Drawing on the 2023 Argentine cycle, he is turning election forensics into a standardised toolkit for electoral management bodies, with guidance on communicating findings publicly to counter disinformation.

He holds an M.A. in Applied Quantitative Research from New York University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and an M.A. in Electoral Studies from San Martín and Salamanca universities. He is fluent in Spanish, English, and Italian.

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