Santiago Ismael Mandirola

Santiago Mandirola is a Ph.D. student in sociology and historical studies at The New School for Social Research. His research examines how the sophistication of consumer credit scoring technologies in South America generated the conditions of growth and expansion of these consumer credit markets. His project will address how the management of consumer information was refined in South American credit bureaus since the 1990s, the role of these changes in the incorporation of new sectors to the consumer credit market, and how this process opened up new possibilities for the extraction of value. Santiago holds an M.A. in sociology from The New School and a B.A. in sociology from the University of Buenos Aires.