Applied Economics Ph.D. Candidate
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Adriana is an Applied Economics Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests are poverty, environmental economics and urban planning, with a focus on water and sanitation in developing countries. Before graduate school, she worked for multilateral organizations, where she worked in the design and implementation of impact evaluations in different Latin American countries. She received a B.A. in Economics from Rosario University, a Master's degree in Economics from Andes University in Colombia, and a Master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Minnesota
Supervised learning
Econometrics
Spatial Econometrics
Machine Learning
Unsupervised learning
Work
experience
Assessment of Thermal and welfare Inequalities in Cities - Consultant. Sustainable Development Chief Economist Office (Washington DC, US)
May 27 - Present
Ghana Household Surveys Harmonization - Consultant. University of San Diego (California, US)
May 15 - Aug 15
Water and Sanitation Economics and Policy Research Consultant Water and Sanitation Division – Inter-American Development Bank (Washington DC, US)
May 1 - Present
Graduate Assistant. Department of Forestry, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, US)
April 1 - June 1
Data Analyst. South Asia Region: Poverty and Equity Global Practice. World Bank.
Dec 2020 - Apr 2024
Graduate Research Assistant. Minnesota Private Well Owners and Humphrey School, University of Minnesota, US.
Jan 2020 - May 2023
Collaboration for Design-Preservation Rapid Assistance Team for the design of public spaces for the City of Milan, MO (US).
May 2022 - Sep 2022
Consultor. Social Protection and Health Department. Inter-American Development Bank (IADB).
Dec 2020 - May 2021
Graduate Research Assistant. IPUMS International, University of Minnesota, US.
Aug 2018 - Jan 2022
Analytical Expert. Social Protection and Health Department. Inter-American Development Bank (IADB).
Nov 2017 - Aug 2018
Survey Expert. Social Protection and Health Department. Inter-American Development Bank (IADB).
Nov 2017 - Aug 2018
Learning and Evaluation Specialist. Porticus Porticus (Sao Paulo, Brazil).
Jun 2016 - Nov 2017
Research Fellow . Social Protection and Health Department. Inter-American Development Bank (IADB).
Sep 2013 - May 2016
Principal component analysis (PCA)
Clustering: k-means
Geographic Information systems
Vector analysis
Raster analysis
Data visualization
Tableu
R-Shiny
PowerBI
Software
ArcGIS
ArcMap
QGIS
Google Earth
ENVI
CityEngine
Stata
R
Python
Matlab
Latex
SPSS
Education
University of Minnesota. Ph.D. Applied Economics.
2018 - present
University of Minnesota. Masters in urban and Regional Planning.
2020 - 2022
University of Minnesota. Masters in Economics.
2011 - 2013
University of Minnesota. Bachelor - Economics.
2005 - 2010