Graciela Teruel

Executive Committee Candidate

Short bio

Graciela Teruel has a PhD in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a bachelor's degree in economics from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM). She is currently the director of the Social Studies Division at Iberoamericana University. She was the director of the Institute for Research on Development with Equity (EQUIDE). She was a founding academic advisor to CONEVAL from 2006 to 2020. She was a member of the Technical Committee for Poverty Measurement. She was a member of the editorial committee of the economic journal Trimestre Económico. Co-director of the National Survey on Household Living Standards (ENNVIH), the first longitudinal survey conducted in 2002, 2005, and 2009. At Equide, she coordinated efforts to conduct the National Survey on the Effects of COVID-19 on the Well-being of
Mexican Households (ENCOVID-19), a monthly survey in 2020, followed by surveys in 2021 and 2022, with a longitudinal component. Both projects are of great importance and have a social impact.
She is a member of the National System of Researchers, Level III. Her primary research areas include the measurement of well-being, migration, and nutrition. She is an advisor to RIMISP; to Comunidad y Biodiversidad AC (COBI); to the Editorial Board of Realidad, Datos y espacio of the International Journal of Statistics and Geography; and to the Editorial Board of the Espinosa Yglesias Foundation (CEEY). She has participated in interdisciplinary research projects with various universities in the United States. She has received research funding from CONACYT, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. She currently participates in the Development with Equity Program (ProDEq) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. As an author and co-author, she has published 27 articles in peer-reviewed journals, contributed to book chapters, and authored three books.