I am an economist from the Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile, and I graduated from the London School of Economics with an MSc in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries.
I am currently leading the development of the first Social Investment Fund (FIS) in Chile and I am a director and co-founder of the NGO “Ciudadano Responsable”. Additionally, I participate as a trustee at the NGO Casa de la Paz, at the Programa de Ética Empresarial y Económica at the University Alberto Hurtado and at the Social Innovation Lab and Entrepreneurship at the Catholic University and the Chilean Innovation Forum.
My work experience is based in social development issues with experience in Chile and the UK. I was member of the group that created and developed in 1997 A Roof for Chile (Un Techo para Chile) and later on, I worked (2002-2005) at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) on agricultural development in Latin America as a consultant for the Policy Division of the FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean. In London, I worked on the EPSRC-funded Fair Tracing project and as a member of the Centre for Developing Areas Research (CEDAR) and the ICT4D Collective/UNESCO Centre. Meanwhile, I was a trustee of the NGO LAWRS (2007-2008), which works with women at social risk in London.
