Carmen joined INSEAD as Predoctoral Researcher in the Economics and Political Science area in October of 2026. She earned an MSc in Development Management (Applied Development Economics) from the London School of Economics and Bachelor's degrees in International Studies and Political Science from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, both with Distinction.
Before joining INSEAD, Carmen worked as a Research Assistant at Banco de España's Global Economics Division, where she conducted research spanning migration flows, commodity markets, and crime perception in Latin America. Alongside this, she expanded her graduate research on how social care infrastructure relates to women's labour force participation across the income distribution in Colombian cities.
Carmen's research interests include development economics, inequality, and labour economics.
