Verónica Budich

Verónica Alejandra Budich is a highly accomplished sociologist and educator with a distinguished career spanning academia, public policy, and the arts. She holds a degree in Sociology with a focus on labor studies from the University of Buenos Aires, complemented by a Diploma in Local Development and Social Economy from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences. She is also a certified secondary and tertiary-level professor in Sociology and a National Professor of Painting from the prestigious Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón.

Professionally, Verónica has made significant contributions at the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC), where she has served as a training and technical cooperation lead for the Local Statistical Information System. She was a key member of the multidisciplinary team behind the Unique Registry of Cases of Violence Against Women and has worked as an expert in statistical quality. Additionally, she served as an instructor for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe’s Federal Training Plan on Standardization of Statistical Processes.
As an educator, Verónica has taught at the University of Buenos Aires in the Faculty of Social Sciences, covering subjects such as Research Methodology in Political Science, Accumulation, Work and Employment, and Sociology of Work. She has also lectured in Market Research at the Argentine University of Enterprise and taught Visual Arts and Contemporary Art History at the secondary level.

Verónica has actively participated in international conferences and training programs, including the ISI World Statistics Congress and courses on gender statistics and measuring violence against women organized by UN Women and ECLAC. Her academic interests extend to decolonial studies and feminist theory, having engaged in conferences such as the Congress of Postcolonial Studies.

Beyond her professional life, Verónica is a passionate consumer of culture—frequently attending visual arts exhibitions, theater performances, and jazz concerts—and has a deep love for cinema.
Currently, she is retired from the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses and continues to teach Research Methodology in Political Science I in the Political Science program at the University of Buenos Aires.