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Madrid, Es

Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain

- Informed Spanish businesses (CEOE members) on regulatory developments, through daily emails, weekly and quarterly policy briefs, special reports (for major legislative packages), and regular working group meetings with our members.- Represented the position of Spanish firms on industrial & energy issues through amendments to proposed legislation, public consultations, letters to the Spanish government and the European Commission (through BusinessEurope), and meetings with relevant stakeholders (Spanish government officials, European Comission, sector-specific business asociations, NGOs, international organizations etc.) - Communicated those business positions to the wider public through participation in talks, roundtables, and other public events.

Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain

Supervise, along with my colleagues in the board of directors, the activities and direction of the organization (budget and finances, current projects, hiring decisions, long-term strategy etc.).

Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain

My primary responsibility is to prepare the Minister's policy meetings and negotiations. I organize them, prepare/review the messages/talking points we want to communicate, and participate in the meetings to complement the Minister´s remarks. We hold these meetings and negotiations bilaterally, with Ministers from other countries, heads of international organizations, Ambassadors, European Commissioners and company executives, and multilaterally, in forums such as the G-20 and the EU Foreign Affairs Council. A second key responsibility is to prepare, in conjunction with the rest of the Cabinet, the Minister´s television interviews, debates, press conferences and, most of all, speeches for events. I have also been representing the Ministry at the inter-ministerial working groups for the Demographic Challenge and the 2030 Agenda.

Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain

Solchaga Recio & Asociados (now part of Metyis) is an economic consulting firm. As consultants, we wrote reports on the effects of regulation and public policies in the following industries/areas: energy and the environment, telecommunications, the digital economy and international trade. We primarily worked on two kinds of reports:• Research reports: These types of reports are descriptive. We answered questions such as the following: What are the primary effects of US tariffs on steel and aluminum to the EU metal industry? How will the tariffs affect the prices and supply of these materials in Europe? What will happen to the industries that use steel and aluminum in their production processes?• Theoretical reports: These types of reports are prescriptive. We explained, with arguments based on economic theory, the regulatory model that is most suitable for an industry. We addressed questions such as the following: is uniform telecommunications regulation necessary for a country, or can there be regulation differentiated by region according to the level of competition? Should we deregulate ride-haling services? Should we regulate the collection and processing of online data, or can the market self-regulate on its own?Additionally, I also provided support to the firm´s financial institutions department, where we carried out revenue enhancement projects of retail banking products, through the i) identification of leaks, ii) proposals for new products and services and iii) pricing analysis and optimization.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

American Institutes for Research is a research firm that specializes in analyzing the effects of public policies in the areas of education, health and international development.An example of our work is the following: A government passes an education reform, and wants to know if it has had the expected impact: has school performance improved? If so, in what subjects and grade levels has this improvement been greatest? Has the impact varied by gender? In carrying out this highly analytical work, we used complex statistical, econometric and data processing methods (using Stata).I started as a Research Assistant and three years after I was promoted to Research Associate, where I supervised three Research Assistants. I received an award for my performance in my last year.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Within AIR, I started working at the Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) and later moved to the International Development Evaluation & Research (IDER) division.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

As an intern at the Metropolitan Policy Center at the Urban Institute, I assisted on public housing and education research in the United States. I worked on various aspects of the research process, including synthesizing relevant literature for these projects and organizing and coding data in MS Excel.

Bachelor Of Arts, Economics (Honors)

Activities and Societies: Omicron Delta Epsilon Honor Society

Global Trade & Development

International Baccalaureate