The V-Dem Latin American Regional Center is hosted at the Universidad Católica de Chile under the coordination of Professor David Altman.

Objectives

The V-Dem Latin American Regional Center aims to: 

• Serve as the knowledge hub on democracy and autocratization in the region.
• Support collaboration among scholars, practitioners, and journalists on democracy promotion. 
• Hold academic conferences and policy-oriented workshops in coordination with national associations on democracy and democracy promotion.
• Produce knowledge about the state of democracy in Latin America using the V-Dem database. 
• Maintain the Regional Center website that publishes the above–mentioned materials.