Alfredo Moreno is one of the most important Latin American historians and has focused his entire academic and research career on the study of the society and political and economic institutions of the Spanish-American colonial world.
He holds a PhD in History from the Complutense University, is a research professor at the Institute of History of the Centre for Human and Social Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and a Corresponding Academician of the Spanish Royal Academy of History.
His most important works are "El corregidor de indios y la economía peruana en el siglo XVIII (1977)", "Relación y documentos de gobierno del Virrey del Perú, José Antonio Manso de Velasco, conde de Superunda (1745-1761)", "Túpac Amaru II, el Inca que sublevó los Andes" (1988), "El Virreinato del Marqués de Castelfuerte (1724-1736)", "El 'premio' de ser virrey: The public and private interests of viceregal government in Philip V's Peru'" (2005) and one of his central lines of research has been the study of deviations (corruption) in the administration of the Crown's affairs in America.