Researchers

Senior Researchers

  • Miguel Jaramillo

    Miguel Jaramillo Baanante

    PhD in History - University of California

    Miguel Jaramillo has a degree in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He completed his graduate studies in Economics and History at the University of California, where he received a PhD in History. His areas of interests are labor economics, social policy and institutional analysis. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE. […]

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  • Juan Leon

    Juan León Jara-Almonte

    PhD in Educational Theory and Policy and Comparative & International Education - Pennsylvania State University

    Juan has a PhD in Educational Theory and Policy and Comparative & International Education from Pennsylvania State University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences with mention in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at GRADE. His research interests are inequality in education, intercultural bilingual education, early […]

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  • Patricia McLauchlan de Arregui

    Patricia McLauchlan de Arregui

    M.A. in Sociology - Johns Hopkins University

    Patricia McLauchlan de Arregui graduated in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She obtained her MA and concluded her doctoral studies in Sociology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She has worked for GRADE as a Senior Researcher since 1985 and was Executive Director of the institution between 1988 and 1998. Her […]

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  • Alan Sanchez

    Alan Sánchez Jiménez

    PhD in Economics - University of Oxford

    Alan has a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford. He also holds a master degree in Economics for Development from Oxford. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at GRADE, a Senior Researcher at Young Lives Peru, and a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Department of International Development. He teaches on quantitative methodologies for impact […]

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  • Martin Valdivia

    Martín Valdivia Huaringa

    PhD in Applied Economics - University of Minnesota

    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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  • Maximo Torero

    Máximo Torero Cullen (de licencia)

    PhD in Economics - University of California, Los Angeles

    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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  • Eduardo Zegarra

    Eduardo Zegarra Méndez

    PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics - University of Wisconsin

    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 […]

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