Florencia Lopez Boo

Executive Committee Candidate

Short bio

Dr Florencia Lopez Boo holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford (UK). She is currently a Professor of Economics and Applied Psychology and the Director of Global TIES for Children Center at New York University (NYU). Before joining NYU, she was at the Inter-American Development Bank for 15 years, where she led the Early Childhood Development (ECD) group, the IDB ECD Innovation Fund, and an initiative on behavioral economics and social policies. She advises governments in Latin America on the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of public policies on child development, social protection and health. She is founding member and former Head of the Latin-American Economics Association Behavioral Insights network (LACEA-BRAIN). She has published articles in specialized journals such as the Lancet, Pediatrics, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Development Economics, among others. She is a member of various global boards and an active promoter of diversity: she was a founding member of networks of women economists globally and in LAC.