Adriana Camacho, Ph. D. in Economics, with an exceptional career in impact evaluation and social programs, joins the Advisory Board of Equilibrium SDC.
Equilibrium welcomes Adriana Camacho to its Advisory Board. With her extensive experience in economics and development, we will continue to strengthen our technical capacity in data collection and processing.
Adriana Camacho’s Professional Career
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. 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.
What motivated Adriana to join the Equilibrium Advisory Board?
Equilibrium caught Adriana’s attention for being a group of young professionals, passionate about their work, with ambitious goals and a strong desire for growth and learning. Our focus on primary data collection is what she is most passionate about as it fuels all of her work and research.
«I think we have many complementarities. I have experience as an academic, as an impact evaluator, as a public official, and I have worked with multilaterals in research and information gathering in Latin America and in the longitudinal panel of Colombia. Equilibrium works on new information collection techniques and generates data.”
A shared vision
As a member of the Advisory Board, Adriana aims to continue driving our growth, focusing on improving our efficiency in data production, as well as expanding our operations into new research and business areas.
¡Agradecemos nuevamente su confianza en nuestra organización y estamos entusiasmados de seguir generando un impacto positivo en la región junto a ella!