Hi, I’m
Sandra Aguilar-Gomez

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I am an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. Between 2021 and 2022, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for Global Transformation at UC San Diego. Between 2022 and 2024, I continued to be a Visiting Scholar there. I have a Ph.D. in Sustainable Development from Columbia University.

My research seeks to understand the consequences of environmental degradation and the challenges governments face in implementing policies in contexts with 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 covers several regions, including Mexico, my country of origin; Colombia, where I currently 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.