I am a Senior Economist at the World Bank. My work focuses on quantifying the benefits that humans get from nature, how to design instruments to influence individuals’ choices to enhance habitat conservation and diminish pollution, and on evaluating the impact of conservation policies on nature and human wellbeing. My empirical approach includes work on microeconomic analysis, cost-benefit analysis, impact evaluation, and footprint analysis using input-output techniques. Most of the work we are currently doing means to link socioeconomic, geographical, and climatic data.

Formerly I was a an Economist at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and a Senior Research Fellow in the Environment for Development (EfD) Center for Central America, which is based in the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center – CATIE- in Costa Rica, and I was an Associate professor at Economics College of the Universidad de la República, in Uruguay. I earned my PhD in Applied Economics in the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2013.