Carolina Agurto

Carolina Agurto is Partner and Executive Director of Economic Development at Fundación IDEA, one of the first and main think tanks in Mexico. Additionally, Carolina is the Head of the Digital Solutions Area focused on creating and implementing digital products to strengthen the outputs of IDEA’s public policy projects.

Since 2016, at Fundación IDEA Carolina had supervised and led more than 30 projects and researches for multilateral and international organizations (USAID, the U.S. Department of State, World Bank, IDB, etc.), private sector, and public sector related to regulatory policy, trade, innovation, entrepreneurship, IP, human capital, behavioral economics, etc. Her recent publications include: “What’s Missing for Boosting Mexico’s 5G Rollout? The Public Policy Landscape” (2021), “Strengths and weaknesses of the Mexican public procurement system of medicines” (2020), “The Importance of E-commerce, Digital Trade, and Maintaining the WTO E-commerce Customs Duty Moratorium” (2020), “Mexico’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic, at GTIPA Perspectives: COVID-19 Impacts on Public Health and the Economy of GTIPA Member Nations” (2020).

Previously, Carolina worked for the Institute for Justice on Entrepreneurship; the OECD; the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Peru; the Peruvian antitrust authority; among others.

Carolina holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and an MPP from The University of Chicago, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, a grant recipient of the JJ/World Bank, and a Dean’s Scholar.

In 2015, Carolina was a fellow of Stanford University’s Hoover Institute and a summer fellow of The University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.