Senior Adjunct Professor of International Development and Latin American Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) teaching at both the Washington, DC and Bologna, Italy campuses. She is a recognized international expert in labor market policies and programs and serves as a consultant to the World Bank, International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Inter-American Development Bank. She is the former Principal Labor Markets Specialist at the Interamerican Development Bank in Washington, DC with particular expertise in labor employment services, migration and labor training programs. Her most recent publications include: Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies (Palgrave-MacMillan Press), “Venezuelan Migrants under COVID-19: Managing South America’s Pandemic amid a Migration Crisis” (Wilson Center, December 2020). She has conducted analyzes of public employment services around the globe, including Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Vietnam, Uganda, and countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
