The institutional core of the desiguALdades.net consists of four partners. The overarching responsibility for the research network rests with the Lateinamerika-Institut (LAI) of Freie Universität Berlin and the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz as executive institutions. In addition, two other institutions with long experience in research and policy advice combined with an outstanding regional expertise on Latin America are integrated into the activities of the research network: the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies (Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien). The Executive Secretary of desiguALdades.net is located at Boltzmannstr. 1, 14195 Berlin.