Senior Researchers

Lykke E. Andersen holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. She has conducted research on environment and development in Latin America for more than 25 years as Executive Director of INESAD, Scientific Manager at Conservation International Bolivia, Chief Economist at the Bolivian Catholic University and as a consultant for the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, the Andean Development Bank, United Nations and various other development institutions. She is currently serving as Executive Director of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network in Bolivia. She is a prolific writer with more than 300 publications, including a dozen books and more than 20 papers in peer-reviewed journals. According to RePEc, she is ranked among the top 5% of female economists in the World.

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Ph.D. in Economic Development and Master in Economic Policy from the Institute of Social Studies-Erasmus, The Hague-Netherlands. Commercial Engineer from the University of Chile. He served as Minister of Finance of Bolivia in 2004-2005, Senior Economist of the Andean Development Corporation (CAF), Executive Director of the Economic Policy Analysis Unit (UDAPE) and Executive Director of the National Institute of Statistics (INE). He has been an international consultant for the IDB, World Bank, ECLAC, UNDP, USAID, European Union, CAF, ILO, ODI, SECO, GGGI, and CEMLA, in areas related to public management. He is an expert in macroeconomic and fiscal policy issues, including public finance management, debt sustainability, fiscal rules and risks, development of macroeconomic-sectoral models (e.g. CGEM, financial programming), for the analysis of structural reforms, climate change, fiscal risks and economic policy in general. He has worked as a public policy advisor in several countries, including Honduras, Paraguay, North Macedonia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Costa Rica and El Salvador.  University professor in areas related to macroeconomics and public policy at the Universidad Católica Boliviana (UCB) and the Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB). He has several national and international publications, including the book: “Debt, Crisis and Reforms in Bolivia”, published by Palgrave, New York in 2001.

Master’s in Political Science from the Rio de Janeiro University Research Institute (IUPERJ), Brazil. Economist from the Bolivian Catholic University San Pablo (UCB), Bolivia. He is a specialist in Social Policies with 20 years of experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of government and private sector programs and projects. He was a Researcher at the Applied Economics Research Institute (IPEA), Brazil; and the Institute for Labor and Society Studies (IETS), Brazil. He is co-founder of the AFortiori Institute, Brazil and currently is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Development Studies (INESAD), Bolivia.

Throughout his career, he has provided consulting and technical advisory services to the Brazilian central government and subnational governments, as well as to international organizations.