Alejandro Giménez Santana
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Dr. Alejandro Giménez Santana is an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, where he serves as Co-Executive Director of the Newark Public Safety Collaborative (NPSC). Before assuming this position, he was a consultant for the World Bank regional office in Bogotá, Colombia, and the Inter-American Development Bank in Montevideo, Uruguay. He has also interned as a research analyst at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and Washington’s Fund for Peace.
Dr. Giménez Santana has secured over $5 million in external funding in support of the Rutgers-Newark anchor initiative “Newark Public Safety Collaborative.” His contribution to the development of the data-informed community engagement model for crime prevention has been featured in national and international press outlets and, most recently, by the U.S. Department of Justice.
He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on crime mapping and comparative criminal justice systems across different cultures. His research focuses on the study of co-production responses for crime prevention, neighborhood effects on crime, and spatial data analysis. With over ten years of experience in the criminal justice field, Dr. Giménez Santana has been invited to present at research and practitioner conferences in over a dozen countries across Europe, Latin America, and North America. He holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Global Affairs from Rutgers University-Newark. Dr. Giménez Santana is on LinkedIn.