Researchers
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Pauline Steisel
During her residency at GRADE, Pauline was studying Economic Science at Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL).
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Claudia Sugimaru Arakaki
Claudia holds a Master’s degree in Educational Sciences from KU Leuven in Belgium and a degree in Psychology with a major in Education from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Currently, she is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE.
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Jessica Tapia Soriano
Jessica holds a Master’s degree in Social Sciences with an orientation on Education from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Argentina. Currently she is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE and the Pedagogical Coordinator of the Growing with Multigrade Rural Schools in Peru (CREER) Project.
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Máximo Torero Cullen (de licencia)
Maximo received a PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Economics and held a postdoctoral fellow position at the UCLA Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR). Currently, he is the Chief Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Prior to joining FAO, he was the World Bank Group Executive Director for […]
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Martín Valdivia Huaringa
Martin Valdivia has a PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota. He has worked as a Senior Researcher at GRADE since 1993. His fields of interest include entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, rural development and more recently democratic governance, with publications in journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Development […]
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Néstor Valdivia Vargas
Néstor Valdivia is studying for a PhD in Sociology at El Colegio de México and holds a degree in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He is currently an Associate Researcher at GRADE in the fields of poverty and equality, education, the labor market and human development. He has worked on development and […]
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Yeni Vasquez Flores
Yeni Vásquez is a graduated of Economics at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, at GRADE she works as a research assistant for the “Línea de base del proyecto People, Nature, and Spices Partnership” (PENS) project in Peru and will support Eduardo Zegarra.
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Karla Vergara Rodríguez
Karla holds a Master’s Degree in Geography of Global Change from the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, and has a degree in Geography and the Environment from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Currently, she is member of the research team in the project “Towards a Sustainable Infrastructure in the Peruvian Amazon”, led by Manuel […]
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Verónica Villarán Bedoya
Verónica holds a Degree in Social Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and a Master’s degree in Social Sciences with an orientation on Education from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Argentina. Between 2011 and 2014 she worked at the Ministry of Education, first as Director of Educational Research and Documentation and […]
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Eduardo Zegarra Méndez
Eduardo Zegarra is an economist from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and has a PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin, specializing in rural development and natural resource management. His dissertation explores the workings and failures of the water market in Chile. He has researched and published on a wide […]
