Education
2015
Phd in Economics and Public Policy. Carnegie Mellon University.
2009
MS in Public Policy. Carnegie Mellon University.
2009
MS in Public Policy. Carnegie Mellon University.
Work
2020
Visiting Professor, Universidad Javeriana.
2015 -
Assistant professor. Johns Hopkins University.
2017 -
2019 -
2018
Research fellow, Citylab.
Research fellow, 21st Cities Century Initiative.
Visiting faculty, CESA.
2012-2017
2014-2015
2014-2015
2005-2007
Urban Economist Consultant, Urban, Rural, and Social Development Global Practice. The World Bank.
Consultant, Institutions for Development. The Interamerican Development Bank.
Consultant, Latin American Development Bank (CAF).
Analyst, United Nations Development Programme.
Awards & Grants
2020-2021
2020-2021
2019-2020
2020
2019
2017, 2019
2018-2020
2018-2019
2017
2015
2015
2008-2015
2007-2010
2008
2002
2000-2005
SafeGraph Academic Partnership Grant
Research Institute for Housing America Trust Fund Grant
Carey Business School's Dean's List Award
Eastern Europe and Central Asia World Bank Academy Award for Best Paper 2020.
Carey's Business School Supplementary Research Grant
Teaching Innovation Fund Award
Paper in the top 10 downloads in 9 categories in Elsevier’s Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
Top 10% in overall authors ranking in SSRN in Elsevier’s Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
Black & Decker Research Fund Grant.
Global Real Estate Summit Best Paper
American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) Homer Hoyt Institute Best Doctoral Dissertation Award.
William Larimer Mellon Fellowship.
Colfuturo Fellowship.
Juan L. Londono Award for Best Master's Dissertation.
Excellence Scholarship Universidad de los Andes.
Andres Bello Fellowship.
Selected Presentations
2020
Cambridge University Real Estate Seminar
Hopkins At Home Lecture
2019
Arizona State University Economics Seminar, Tempe.
ITEA Annual Conference on Transportation Economics, Paris.
3rd Workshop in Urban and Regional Economics, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana-Banco de la Republica, Bogota.
2019 Federal Reserve Community Development Research Conference: Renewing the Promise of the Middle Class, Washington.
DC Urban Day, Washington.
AREUEA-ASSA, Atlanta.
Kraks Fond Workshop on Agglomeration Economies, Copenhaguen. American University Economics Seminar, DC.
2018
Research seminar Universidad Javeriana, Bogota.
Faculty seminar CESA, Bogota.
European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association, Dussseldorf.
Federal Reserve Board of Governors seminar, Washington.
International Organization of Social Sciences and Behavioral Research, New Orleans.
George Washington University Economics Seminar, Washington.
Federal Reserve Regional Economics Workshop, Baltimore
2017
Richmond Federal Reserve Seminar
12th Meeting of the Urban Economics Association, Vancouver
64th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Vancouver NBER Summer Institute
1st Workshop on Urban and Regional Economics, Bogota
Annual International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC)
AREUEA Conference
European Regional Science Association Conference
The World Bank Annual Conference on Development Economics
2016
Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute, Catholic University of Rome, Rome
Western Economics Association International (WEAI) Conference, Santiago
Urban Economics Seminar, The New School Milano School of Public Affairs, New York
Kraks Fond workshop on Analysis of Residential Location Choice, Copenhaguen.
2015
Seminar, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Seminar, University of Florida, Gainsville
Seminar, City University of New York, New York
Seminar, Interamerican Development Bank Research, Washington
Seminar, Howard University, Washington
Seminar, ITAM Business School, Mexico City
Seminar, Global Real Estate Summit, Washington
2014
AREUEA-ASSA Conference, Philadelphia.
Federal Reserve and UWisconsin Housing-Urban-Labor-Macro (HULM).
MOOD - 12th Doctoral Workshop in Economic Theory and Econometrics, Rome
ICE - University of Chicago- Argonne Initiative for Computational Economics, Chicago
The Journes Louis-Andre Gerard-Varet Conference in Public Economics, Marseille
Service to the Profession
Academic/Program Committees
2020
2020 Virtual Meeting of the Urban Economics Association (UEA)
LACEA Urban Economics Network - Co-director
Urban Economics Association Meeting Academic Program Committee
Prosumer in the Energy Transition era (ECPE) Head Committee University of Camerino (Italy).
2019
14th Meeting of the Urban Economics Association (UEA)
American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association National Conference
2nd Urban and Regional Economics Workshop Javeriana
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Foundations and Frontiers of Urban Economics Workshop in the Latin American Economic Association Conference in Puebla
Refereeing and Editorial
Journal of Urban Economics. Urban Studies.
Urban Studies.
International Economics Review. REGION.
Journal of Housing Economics.
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
Desarrollo y Sociedad.
Johns Hopkins University University Press. Editorial CESA.
Contact Me
2020-2021
UNDPs grant Exploring Impact and Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean Using Mobility Data