Adriana Camacho is a Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University (USA) and an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Los Andes (Colombia). She also serves as Senior Economist for the office of the LAC Chief Economist at the World Bank. Her main areas of specialization are impact evaluation, social programs, poverty, health, and education.

Throughout her vast professional career, she led the joint UNDP and World Bank project to evaluate the impacts of COVID-19 in 23 Latin American countries. Throughout her vast professional career, she led the joint UNDP and World Bank project to evaluate the impacts of COVID-19 in 23 Latin American countries. She has also worked for the Government of Colombia, holding the position of Director of Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Policies in the National Planning Department (DNP) and has been part of the commission of experts on poverty of the Department of Statistics of Colombia (DANE). Likewise, for more than 10 years she was part of the ELCA longitudinal survey committee.

She has held visiting researcher positions at the Center for Global Development (Washington DC), the Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America of the World Bank (Washington DC), and DIW (Berlin).

She has studied the impact of conflict on health, demographics and business activity. Her research has been published in international journals such as the American Economic Review pp, The Lancet, the Journal of Health Economics, among others. In 2023, she has been nominated among the 30 most influential economists in Colombia by Forbes, and among the 10 most cited academics in Colombia by La República.