Camila Lobo

Camila Lobo is the former Events and Outreach Manager at Harvard’s Center for International Development.

Her prior experience included 6 years in Marketing roles at Unilever in Europe and Procter & Gamble in Latin America. She has experience in Digital Marketing, product management, events and sponsorship management and budget control. She also volunteers as a Digital Marketing strategist for a non-profit company based in NY.

Camila holds a Strategic Management Certificate from Harvard Extension School, a Master’s degree in Social Communications and Branding from Universidad Pompeu Fabra and a Bachelor’s in Marketing from the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing. She speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and German.

Paula Marra

Paula Marra is an agricultural expert and entrepreneur. She holds a degree in Agronomic Engineering from UBA, Buenos Aires, and has studied Organizational Development at Universidad de San Andres, Buenos Aires and Agribusiness at UBA.

Paula is a business leader who developed her career at Grupo Los Grobo, a Latin American leading agribusiness and investment company. Los Grobo is a broad, integrated and diversified business platform that covers agricultural land development and services such input provision and technical and financial assistance for small producers. It also processes its own farming activities such as wheat processing and commodities industrialization. Paula was a longstanding Director of the Board, a member of the Board’s executive committee, and served as chairwoman of the audit committee. She spearheaded many of Los Grobo’s acquisitions in Latin America (in Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay).

She is an active member of civil society leading organizations like Fundacion Poder Ciudadano, Fundacion Darse Cuenta, Fundacion Emprendimientos Ruarles, Grupo de Productores del Sur, Espacio de Negocios Inclusivos (ENI, Universidad di Tella, Argentina) and a Member of the Inter-American Development Bank’s 2020 Strategic Advisory Board. She created a school for Young Entrepreneurs in Rural Areas (1999), that later turned into a public school.

Paula is a shareholder and founder of Rosario-based company Bioceres, a biotech firm that develops genes for soy, corn and wheat to withstand drought and cold temperatures. It also makes insecticides, fungicides, bio-fertilizers and chemical-based fertilizers. She is also the Founder of Matriarca, an organization that aims to develop a system of sustainable production and consumption and help with the development of indigenous and creole communities in Latin America.

Ulrich Schetter

Ulrich Schetter joined the Center for International Development’s Growth Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2019.

His research aims to better understand channels through which globalization affects the growth and prosperity of countries. Specific channels considered include feedback effects from countries’ current specialization in international trade on their development prospects, the growth effects of import competition from technology leaders, and implications of globalization for the concentration of talent.

Before joining CID, Ulrich worked as a Postdoc at the University of St. Gallen and at Yale, and as an Economic Consultant at NERA. He holds a Dr.sc. in Economics from ETH Zurich, a Master in Quantitative Economics and Finance from the University of St. Gallen, and the CEMS Master in International Management.

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Sultan Orazbayev

Sultan Orazbayev joined the Center for International Development’s Growth Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2018. 

Sultan is an economist working on questions related to international economics, social networks, migration and innovation. Sultan earned degrees in economics from UCL, LSE, and Simon Fraser University, with teaching experience at all three institutions. Apart from academic work, Sultan has worked as an economist at a think-tank and an endowment fund.

Huy Nguyen

Huy is a front-end web developer and led the front-end development of the Atlas of Economic Complexity. He designed the Atlas’ front-end architecture, implemented the user interface and visualizations, and created a sophisticated build pipeline to bundle assets in the most efficient manner for delivery to the browser. He’s passionate about making beautiful, engaging and high-performance web applications using the latest web technologies.

Before coming to CID, he was a front-end developer at the data visualization firm Periscopic where he worked on projects for major clients like the US Patent & Trademark Office and the Gates Foundation.

Huy graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Reed College where he studied physics and operated a nuclear reactor. His thesis in computational quantum physics was recognized by the American Physical Society as one of the best undergraduate physics research work in America in 2014. He co-authored a peer-reviewed journal paper before graduating from high school and was the lead author of another peer-reviewed journal paper before graduating from college.

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José Ignacio Hernandez

José Ignacio Hernández G. (Caracas, 1974) has a Law Degree from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, with a summa cum laude diploma (1997); an Advanced Study Certificate from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2001), and a Juris Doctor from the Universidad Complutense with a summa cum laude diploma (2002). He is Professor of Administrative Law at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, both in Venezuela. He also teaches Economic Constitutional Law at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. He has been a professor of regulatory framework at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA), also in Venezuela.

He is the Director of the Law Review of the Law Faculty of the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.

He has written more than 100 academic articles published in Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, the U.S.A., Italy, Poland, and Spain. He has also written 14 books.

His research field encompasses Administrative Law, Constitutional Law and Economic Regulation.

Bruno Zuccolo

Bruno Zuccolo was a Research Assistant at Center for International Development’s Growth Lab.

He graduated from Brown University in 2016 with a Bachelor’s in International Relations and Economics. While at Brown, Bruno was a board member at the Brown International Organization, and studied abroad for a semester at the Università di Bologna in Italy.

His previous work experience includes interning at the Brazilian Foreign Ministry and in the Department of Management at the United Nations.

Semiray Kasoolu

Semiray joined the Center for International Development’s Growth Lab as a Research Fellow in 2017.

Prior to joining CID, she worked with the World SME Forum in the Republic of Georgia to diagnose constraints to the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises and to design solutions to facilitate their integration into global value chains. She also worked as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs, focusing on portfolio monitoring and analysis.

Semiray holds a B.S. in Economics and Accounting from Saint Peter’s University and a Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID, 2017) from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Her research interests include private sector development and competitiveness and she is passionate about using data science techniques to formulate policy recommendations to contribute to these areas.

Ana Grisanti

Ana Grisanti recently graduated magna cum lade from Boston College, with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Sociology. She is member of The Phi Beta Kappa Society, the oldest honor society for the liberal arts and sciences in the United States, and of Omicron Delta Epsilon, the international economics honor society. She interned for two summers at Baron Funds, in the Research and Risk Analytics teams. For another summer, she worked as a research assistant at the firm Ecoanalítica, based in Venezuela. For two years, she was Editor of The Stylus of Boston College literary and arts magazine, filling positions such as Treasurer and Art Editor. She wrote an Honor’s Thesis in which she compared the impact of various oil savings and stabilization funds on the fiscal climate of Venezuela, and assessed which one would best serve as a future instrument for the country’s stabilization. This project stemmed partly from a summer she spent in Kuwait, taking a class on politics and the economics of oil in the Gulf. She speaks fluently English, Spanish and French. In her free time, she enjoys going to art museums, hiking and playing the piano.

Dario Diodato

Dario Diodato is an economic analyst for the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and a Growth Lab research associate. Formerly, Dario Diodato was at the Growth Lab as a Research Fellow between 2017 and 2019.

He holds a Bachelor degree in Economics of International Markets and New Technologies (2007) from Bocconi University of Milan, a Master in Economics and Geography (2009) and a PhD in Economic Geography (2017) from Utrecht University.

Before the start of his PhD, he worked for three years at the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency in The Hague (2009-2012), where he conducted research aimed at shaping regional policies. His research interests include structural transformation, technological diffusion, agglomeration externalities, migration, economic resilience, national and regional development.