Adriana Arreaza, a Venezuelan national, joined the Growth Lab as a Visiting Fellow in 2024. She is an economist with over twenty years of experience in macroeconomics and development. She joins us from CAF, Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, where she serves as Director of Macroeconomic, leading innovative economic reports, providing sovereign analysis to inform executive-level decision-making, and developing research products to support country strategies. She also served as CAF's interim Chief Economist, overseeing the bank's research publications. She has extensive academic experience, lecturing and participating in conferences internationally.

Adriana holds a Ph.D. in economics from Brown University.