Maria Consuelo Sotomayor

Consuelo is from Viña del Mar, Chile. Over the summer, she worked as a consultant for the World Bank’s IEG, where she contributed to the evaluation of the Education Sector Framework (ESF). Prior to graduate school, she worked as an Economist at the Ministry of Finance of Chile, where she co-led the Chilean Policy Evaluation Agenda for CNEP, overseeing research and team management while engaging with international partners including the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the OECD. She has also worked as a Project Manager with ConsiliumBots and TetherEd, managing the implementation of centralized school allocation systems in Colombia and Brazil in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank, and as a Research Associate with J-PAL, coordinating fieldwork in the Dominican Republic and Colombia. Consuelo holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in applied economics, both from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She loves photography and outdoor activities.