EMPLOYMENT
2023 - Chief Economist, CAF, Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean
2012 - 2023 Lead Economist, Research Department, Inter-American Development Bank
2006 – 2012 Teaching Assistant, The Pennsylvania State University
2000 – 2006 Assistant Researcher, Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE)
EDUCATION
2006 – 2012 Ph.D. in Economics, The Pennsylvania State University
1997 – 2002 B.A. in Economics, Universidad del Pacífico (Peru)
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Member of the OECD/INFE Research Advisory Group participants, 2025-2027.
Member of the Global Future Council on Financial Education, World Economic Forum, 2025-2027.
Money Awareness and Inclusion Award for Best Academic Paper, May 2024.
Award “Premio Federico Prades” for young economists, National Association of Spanish Banks, January 2020.
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Initiative Competitive Fund Grant, Innovations for Poverty Action, July 2019.
EduFin Research Grant, Center of Financial Education and Capability, BBVA, May 2019.
Fernand Braudel Fellow, Department of Economics, European University Institute, September -December 2019.
Visiting scholar, Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III, October-December 2018.
Financial Literacy Research Award, 4th Cherry Blossom Financial Education Institute, April 2018.
Conference Grant, Royal Economics Society, June 2011.