Universidad del Rosario

Aura Cifuentes graduated from the Externado de Colombia University, where she studied Government and International Relations. She has a Master's degree in Public Affairs from Sciences Po Paris. She has worked on issues related to Open Government, Public Innovation, and Digital Transformation for the last seven years. Her professional career in Colombia includes her leading high-level roles in the Digital Government Directorate of the Technology Ministry, the Public Innovation Team of the National Planning Department, and the Transparency and Anticorruption Observatory of the Presidency of the Republic. In France, she worked as an adviser at Etalab, the French Prime Minister taskforce in charge of Open Data; and as a Smart Cities consultant at the IT multinational Inetum. In the academy, she teaches the "Design and Analysis of Public Policy" and "Challenges and opportunities for an innovative public sector" classes at the Rosario and Los Andes universities in Bogota. In 2021, she was recognized as one of "the 31 influential young women in Colombian politics" by Konrad Adenauer and the Wom-en Foundations. Also, Apolitical and the WEF appointed her as one of the 50 most influential disruptive leaders in the world, thanks to her work driving public transformation during the pandemic.

Fernando Carriazo is an Associate Professor at the Department of International, Political, and Urban Studies in the Urban Management and Development Program (GDU) of Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia. He obtained his Ph.D in Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics  from The Pennsylvania State University. Formerly, he was a researcher at the USDA-Economic Research Service, and a professor and researcher at the Economics Department at Uniandes.  At present, he is a board member of the Environment for Development-Colombia initiative (EfD-Colombia). His current research interests include the economic and spatial analysis of environmental externalities, the economics of pollution control and conservation policies, and the analysis of urban-rural linkages and their impact on regional development.

Santiago is Associate Professor and MPP Director at the School of Economics, of Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia. He has a PhD in Economics from Stanford University. His research focus on the fields of Development and Environmental Economics. For example topics of illegal mining, deforestation, air pollution and eco-tourism. Santiago uses spatial data, satellite imagery and machine learning to answer research questions. He was one of the winners of the Google Artificial Intelligence Impact Challenge 2019.