Carmen Ponce San Román
Carmen Ponce is an External Affiliated Researcher at GRADE and is currently affiliated as Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University (Toronto, Canada). She has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a MSc. In Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. Her areas of interest include climate change, poverty and inequality, rural development and child work.
Carmen has been a member of the Advisory Committee on Poverty at the National Statistics and Information Institute (INEI), member of the Board of the Permanent Seminar for Agricultural Research (SEPIA), and member of the Sub-Committee of Indigenous Peoples and Peasant Communities of the Committee for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labor (CPETI). She was a member of the Save the Children-Canada Advisory Board on Children and Work between 20014 and 2019. Before joining GRADE, she worked as a project assistant at the national office of the Inter-American Development Bank where she monitored programs promoting income-generation amongst poor households. She has been a lecturer at the Universidad del Pacífico and at the National University Pedro Ruiz Gallo. Previously, she worked as a teaching assistant at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and at the University of Texas at Austin.
