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Andrea holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and a master’s degree in public administration from the London School of Economics (LSE), specializing in economic policy. She has served as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), evaluating the impacts of COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, and the effects of climate change and natural disasters on several economies in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Andrea has contributed to the development of the macroeconomic model used in the Fiscal Management Division of the IDB to address various questions related to debt sustainability, fiscal rules, and advising LAC economies.