I am an Economist working in the Research Department of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group.

My research currently focuses on understanding the interaction between market distortions and technology adoption, firm dynamics, entrepreneurship, and structural transformation.

Before joining IFC I worked as Specialist in the Competitiveness, Technology and Innovation division at the Inter-American Development Bank. Previously I was a consultant at the Strategic Development Effectiveness division.

Before coming to DC, I was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit in the University of Sussex, UK.

My general research interests are development economics, with emphasis on productivity, labor markets, urban economics, political economy, gender, and conflict.

I was awarded a PhD in Economics (2017), and a MSc in Development Economics (2010, with distinction) from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. I also have a BA in Economics (2005) from Universidad del Pacifico, Peru.