Albert F. ARCARONS is Deputy Director at the Offi ce of the High Commissioner for the Fight against Child Poverty of the Spanish government. He holds a doctorate in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute, a Master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Cambridge, and a Master’s degree in Social Research Methods, with a second concentration in Social Policy, from the London School of Economics. Before joining the Offi ce of the High Commissioner, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Demographic Studies in Barcelona, and as a research associate at the Migration Policy Centre in Florence, the International and European Forum on Migration Research (FIERI) in Torino, and the Institute of Childhood and the Urban World in Barcelona.