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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez

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I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Government and Public Transformation at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico City. I lead the Gender Research Initiative at Environment for Development (EFD), where I am also an International Associate. I previously was an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Universidad de los Andes and a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for Global Transformation at UC San Diego. Between 2022 and 2024, I also served as a Visiting Scholar at UCSD. I have a Ph.D. in Sustainable Development from Columbia University.

My research aims to understand the consequences of environmental degradation and the challenges governments face in implementing policies in contexts characterized by underlying structural inequalities or weak institutions. To answer these questions, my work combines the fields of environmental, gender, and health economics, often exploring their intersections and with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. The geographic scope of my projects encompasses several regions, including Mexico, my country of origin; Colombia, where I currently reside and work; as well as Cambodia and Tanzania. My work as an economist is informed by my interdisciplinary doctoral training, which allows me to combine the economic rigor of quasi-experimental and experimental research design with data and approaches from environmental sciences, often employing satellite information, geospatial analyses, and high-frequency data.