Academic Background

• Ph.D in Geography
  Doctoral degree

  Clark University, Worcester (MA), USA. 2007

• Master in City Planning, Environmental Policy and Planning
  Master degree

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (MA), USA. 1997

• M.Sc in Economics
  Master degree

  Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. 1994
  

• B.Sc. in Economics

  Bachelor degree

  Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. 1992

 Area

• Sustainability

Profile 

Associate Professor at the School of Management with a Ph.D. in Geography (Clark University) and an MA in Urban Planning (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). She was a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Planetary Sciences (Stanford University) and has been a visiting professor at the Center for Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University. She teaches Social Responsibility at the undergraduate level, Sustainable Development at the MBA, and courses on global value chains at the MA and Ph.D. levels.

Research Interests

Her research focuses on the impact of globalisation on land use, with special emphasis on tropical agricultural commodities. She is currently working on understanding how companies make decisions about sustainability investments, and  on the impacts of such decisions on communities and ecosystems. She has over twenty years of experience in rural development and environmental conservation in Latin America.