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I am a Venezuelan economist with a Master, DEA and PhD in Economics at the University of Barcelona. I have previous experiences of working in private companies, policy-making institutions and academia. At the end of my studies in Economics at the University of the Andes, I worked at the Department of Quantitative Support of the Central Bank of Venezuela and the Macroeconomic Analysis Unit corresponding to the cooperation between the Economic and Finance Advisor Office to the National Assembly of Venezuela and the Inter-American Development Bank. I also studied the ESOL programme at Kensington and Chelsea College and I obtained experience working at the Research Department of Economics (University of Barcelona), Mediterranean Action Plan (United Nation Enviromental Programmme) and the Center for International Finance (IESE Business School). I have teaching experience lecturing Decision Analysis (European University), Research Methods (University of the Andes), and Epistemology Research (UPEL – IMPM) for undergraduate and postgraduate students. I have published and reviewed in international journals. In my PhD dissertation “Essays on the exchange rate real determinants”, I focused on internal and external imbalances in the global economy and the relationship between current and capital accounts and misalignments in real exchange rates. I also followed a post doctoral program as a research fellow at the University of Pavia where I wrote my paper "A threshold multivariate model to explain fiscal multipliers with government debt" published at the journal of Econometric Research in Finance. My last affiliations are the CIDIS of the University of the Andes as a Researcher and the Department of Economics and Business of the Pompeu Fabra University as an Adjunct Professor.

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