Jill Hedges joined Oxford Analytica in 2001. She leads Latin America analysis and is responsible for Daily Brief coverage of Southern Cone countries and Venezuela, among others, and has been a frequent contributor to the Daily Brief on Argentina in particular.

Recent projects have included acting as an expert witness for a client in an arbitration case and bespoke reports for clients on Argentina, including a five-year political and economic outlook and annual reports on the mining outlook. She has done radio and television interviews for the BBC and others, including Al-Jazeera and CNBC, and has been a panellist at the Oxford Analytica International Conference since 2002. Her books Argentina: A Modern History and Evita: The Life of Eva Perón were published by I B Tauris in July 2011 and October 2016.

Jill previously worked as Editorial Manager of Esmerk Argentina, covering political, macroeconomic and business news from Latin America, and is a former member of Amnesty International’s Americas research department. She holds a PhD and an MA (Distinction) in Latin American Studies from RILAS at the University of Liverpool, specialising in Argentine politics, federal relations and provincial economies.