Mendez_MERIT

Ana Karen Diaz Mendez

PhD fellow

Education
MSc., Quantitative Economics, Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona, 2017
Education
MSc., Quantitative Economics, Université Paris 1 Pantheón Sorbonne, 2017
Education
BA., Economics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2011
Institute
UNU-MERIT
Nationality
Mexican
Contacts
diazmendez@merit.unu.edu a.diazmendez@maastrichtuniversity.nl +31 43 388 84400

Ana Karen is a Ph.D. fellow at UNU-MERIT/ Masstricht University since 2021. Her research focuses on the effects of inequality challenges on labor market outcomes in developing countries and is supervised by Prof. Dr. Ir. Eleonora Nillesen and Dr. Bruno Martorano.

Before joining the Ph.D. Programme, Ana Karen worked as an Economics Consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) country office in Mexico, where she monitored the country’s macroeconomic performance and collaborated on several IDB regional publications (for Central America and Mexico). She has also worked as a consultant for the UNDP and FAO in Mexico.