Curriculum Vitae

Hoja de vida (Español)

Bogotá, Colombia · Colombian and U.S. citizen · Authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Education

Jan 2025 – Dec 2028

MA in Economics

Universidad de los Andes

Expected December 2028.

Selected graduate coursework: Financial Macroeconomics; Models of Social Interactions.

Aug 2019 – Jun 2025

LLB in Law

Universidad de los Andes

Emphasis: financial regulation, contract law.

Jan 2019 – Dec 2023

BA in Economics

Universidad de los Andes

Cum Laude, top 3% of the graduating class. GPA 4.66 / 5.0.

Selected electives: Capital Markets; Labor Economics; Seminar on Monetary and Banking Topics; Macroeconomics from the Central Bank; Industrial Organization; Monetary Theory and Policy; Seminar on Economics, Social Policy, Poverty and Equity.

Jan 2020 – Nov 2025

Minor in Mathematics

Universidad de los Andes

Real and abstract analysis, dynamic optimization, measure theory.

Aug 2021 – Dec 2025

Minor in French

Universidad de los Andes

Employment

Jun 2025 – present

Head of Research and Projects

Colombia Fintech

  • Design and lead the studies that produce the sector's reference statistics on digital lending, payments and financial inclusion.
  • Build the empirical case behind the association's regulatory and public policy proposals.
  • Coordinate applied research with public sector, private sector and multilateral institutions.

Jul 2024 – Jun 2025

Economic Analyst

Colombia Fintech

  • Data analysis for the reports characterizing Colombia's fintech ecosystem.
  • Executed applied research projects with public sector, private sector and multilateral institutions.
  • Supported the construction of regulatory and public policy recommendations.

Jun 2021 – Apr 2022

Quantitative Analyst

World Bank–funded project (PHGF Grant TF0A8267), El Salvador

  • Integrated three administrative health record systems and classified 12,618 ICD-10 subcategories into 123 chronic condition groups.
  • Estimated disease clusters using structural equation models and K-means, cross-validated by sex, age group and region.
  • Applied network analysis to inter-facility referral flows and estimated service costs for the priority clusters.

Teaching

Teaching Fellow (profesor complementario), Department of Economics, Universidad de los Andes, 2024–present. Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, 2019–2023.

Advanced theory and core sequence courses, including Game Theory, Microeconomics III, Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics.

Full teaching record

Research

Banking intermediation, credit regulation, monetary policy transmission and financial networks in emerging economies. Applied research for the Ministry of Health of El Salvador under a World Bank–funded project.

Research

Technical skills

Programming and data:
Stata (advanced), R (advanced), Python (advanced), SQL, Git, LaTeX.
Methods:
applied econometrics and impact evaluation, machine learning, network analysis.
Languages:
Spanish (native), English (full professional), French (professional working).

Honors

  • Cum Laude, top 3% of the graduating class, BA Economics.
  • National recognition for top performance in Saber Pro, Colombia's mandatory national higher-education exit examination.

Additional coursework: 40+ online certificates in statistics, programming and quantitative methods (Coursera; Johns Hopkins, Duke, Michigan, Imperial College, HKUST, UC San Diego).