I am currently enrolled in the PhD program at the University of
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. My initial formation is Agronomy,
specializing in Agricultural Economics and Management. I am
a Chilean citizen.
Previously I worked at the Catholic University of Chile, in the
Agricultural Economics Department as a researcher and instructor.
My work was related to agricultural labor productivity and
strategic management. I collaborated in a scientific project
financed by the Chilean Scientific Commission
to study the Human Resources strategies in agribusiness industries.
I continued my professional
career as a consultant at
the FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean,
this time focused on strategic planning and organizational change
inside the international organizations, with the aim to enhance
their impact in development cooperation.
These
activities gave me a new perspective about many common problems in Latin America,
in particular
regional inequalities and competitiveness.
In 2004 I came to Paris to integrate the
M.Sc. in International Economics at the
University of Paris 1, and I began the PhD
Program in Economics under the supervision of Professor Thierry
Mayer.
Although my research interests
remain wide-open,
my current work surrounds
the relationships between trade and industrial agglomeration, with
particular attention on the impact in the labor market and
inequality issues in developing countries. I am convinced that
research in this field
will result in important implications for many hot topics, like
regional policy
and distribution of gains derived from trade and economic growth.
