Research Associates

Andrés Felipe Betancourth

Master in Agricultural Production Systems and Zootechnical Veterinarian from the Universidad de Caldas; Specialist in Sustainable Tropical Agroforestry from the Instituto de Educación Superior CINOC.

Anthony Bebbington

Ph.D. and M.A. in Geography from Clark University, USA, B.A. in Geography and Land Economics from the University of Cambridge.

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Antonio Yúnez Naude

D. in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Arilson Favareto

PhD in Environmental Sciences and Sociologist, University of São Paulo.

Benjamín Jara Valencia

Ph.D. and Master of Science in Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics from the Ohio State University
(USA). Agricultural Engineer and Master in Agricultural Economics from the Catholic University of Chile.

Carolina Trivelli

Master’s degree in Agricultural Economics from Pennsylvania State University and Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences with a major in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

Felicity-Proctor

Felicity Proctor

Independent Consultant, United Kingdom, Graduate of the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Félix Modrego

Félix Modrego

Forestry Engineer and Master in Agricultural Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Félix Modrego currently works as a Rimisp Researcher, participating in the program “Rural Territorial Dynamics.

Gustavo Gordillo

D. from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes de la Sorbonne France in Economic Development.

Ileana Gomez

Master in Social Sciences at FLACSO Mexico; PhD studies in Sociology at the University of Alicante. Sociologist graduated from Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, UCA.

Isidro Soloaga

D. in Agricultural and Resources Economics (AREC) from the University of Maryland in the United States; and a B.A. in Economics from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina).

Javier Escobal

D. in Economic Development from Wageningen University in the Netherlands and a Master’s degree from New York University, where he also completed doctoral studies in Economics.

John Scott

D. and M.Sc. in Economics, University of Oxford, England / United Kingdom.

José María Sumpsi

D. in Agricultural Economics from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Master in Operations Research, Escuela Universitaria de Estadística, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Ligia Gomez

PhD in Economics from the ETEA – Faculty of Economics and Business Administration attached to the University of Cordoba, Spain. Master in Economics and Development from the University of Antwerp, Belgium with the Central American University of Nicaragua.

María del Pilar Bernal

PhD in Human Rights, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain. Master in Sociology and political scientist at the National University of Colombia.

Olga Lucia Sorzano

Olga Lucia Sorzano Montaña

PhD in Cultural Policy and Management, Master in Economic and Social Policy Analysis and professional in Economics.

Pablo Ospina

Master’s degree in social anthropology from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico. He studied history at the Catholic University of Louvain and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. Currently pursuing a PhD in humanities (history) at the Center for Documentation on Latin America (CEDLA) of the University of Amsterdam.

Raul Asensio

Senior Researcher, Institute of Peruvian Studies, Peru

Ruben G. Echeverría

Senior Advisor Agriculture Development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Thomas Reardon

D. from the University of California at Berkeley and Master’s degrees from Columbia University (USA) and the University of Nice (France).

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