#EqualityTalks 1 "Exploring Social Mobility"

Nathalie Jean-Baptiste is the Deputy CEO and the Senior Programme Manager - Wealth Inequality at the Julius Baer Foundation, which she joined in March 2020. Prior to Julius Baer, she led an action research unit in East Africa for 4 years. Nathalie has an extensive research background, she was a Marie Curie Global Fellow and worked for the last 15 years in the field of urban  studies. Her work focused on inequalities, urban vulnerabilities and transformation. Nathalie is an architect graduated in Mexico City and holds an MSc and PhD from the Bauhaus University. Her international experience bridging science and practice spreads across Mexico, Germany, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Tanzania as well as Australia. She is a board member of the International Association People-Environment Studies and currently serves as a mentor in the WISA - Women in Science and Art Program.

Associate Professor at the Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Director of the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES), and Principal Researcher at the "Geographies of Conflict and Cohesion" research line at the same centre.

She is also Principal Researcher of the Fondecyt Project N°1191440, “Cultural Repertoires, Socio-spatial Trajectories and Politics: Fragmentation and Conflict within the Upper Middle Class in Chile”. She is author of Upper Middle Class Social Reproduction (Palgrave, 2019) as well as several papers in journals such as Cities, Urban Studies, City and Community, The Sociological Review, among others. Her research topics include subjective aspects of social mobility and social stratification, place attachment, and urban conflicts.