International Consultancy Experience

Over 18 years of applied consultancy for international organisations, national governments, and multilateral agencies across Latin America and the Caribbean. Work spans labour markets, housing policy, social programme evaluation, infrastructure planning, and local governance. Methods applied include difference-in-differences (DiD), regression discontinuity design (RDD), instrumental variables (IV), small-area estimation, and panel data analysis.

UN-ECLAC — United Nations

Climate Change and Labour Markets  (2025)

Causal analysis of climate disaster effects on productivity, unemployment and wages across Latin America and the Caribbean. Methods: difference-in-differences, event studies, panel fixed effects.

Housing, Investment and Post-COVID-19 Socioeconomic Recovery  (2021–2022)

Socioeconomic impact analysis of housing investment across six LAC countries: Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Dominican Republic.

Published as official UN document: LC/TS.2022.157

Labour Informality at Municipal Level in Chile  (2021)

Small-area estimation methodology integrating Census and household survey data to estimate labour informality at municipal level in Chile.

Published: UN-ECLAC, LC/TS.2022/5

Sustainable Cities with Equality — Regional Report for LAC  (2014–2015)

Analytical contribution to the Regional Report for Habitat III (Third UN Conference on Sustainable Development and Housing). Topics: public housing, urban transport, infrastructure financing, urban institutions.

Risk Analysis, Territorial Planning and Critical Infrastructure  (2007–2010)

Multiple projects on natural risk assessment and territorial planning in Latin America. Includes eco-efficient urban infrastructure and biotechnology cluster development.

Published: SUBDERE / CEPAL, N° 205-409; UN-ECLAC/GTZ LC/W.266

ILO — International Labour Organization

Child Labour, Poverty and Inequality  (2018–2019)

Design and implementation of a municipal-level child labour risk model in Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Costa Rica. Integration of quantitative and qualitative methods with a social impact focus.

Open Contracting Partnership (OCP)

Infrastructure Procurement Transparency in Chile  (2020–2021)

Diagnostic of the state of infrastructure procurement data in Chile against the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS). Identification of opportunities and challenges for open data and transparency.

Ministry of Public Works, Chile

Decentralisation of Public Infrastructure  (2023–2024)

Institutional design for the decentralisation of planning, tendering and delivery of public infrastructure in Chile.

National Infrastructure Plan for Mobility 2020–2050  —  Executive Secretary  (2018–2020)

Led the design and publication of Chile's National Infrastructure Plan for Mobility. Coordinated long-term demand studies and supervised the planning-to-execution linkage for national public works.

Published: Ministry of Public Works of Chile, 2022

Other Institutional Clients

Health Efficiency Index  (2022–2023)

Roche Laboratories and Fiscal Observatory, Chile. Design and implementation of a Health Efficiency Index (HEI) for public and private health systems at sub-national level.

Feasibility Study — New Aconcagua Region  (2017–2018)

SUBDERE, Chile. Statistical and economic analysis of regional scenarios for the creation of a new administrative region.

Metropolitan Park Pre-Feasibility Assessment  (2017–2018)

Regional Metropolitan Government of Santiago. Economic evaluation of the Metropolitan Park Promenade, Phase III.

Future Demand for Household Telecommunications Infrastructure  (2016–2017)

Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications, Chile. Study of long-term broadband connectivity needs in homes and SMEs.