María Alejandra Arias Callejas Email & Phone Number

Bogotá, Bogota, CO

Bogotá, Capital District, Colombia

Bogotá, Capital District, Colombia

Leading the effort to design an adequate data usage strategy that the financial businesses of Grupo Falabella in Colombia, Chile, Perú and México, can leverage to improve the value and experience they offer their customers

Bogotá D.C. Metropolitan Area

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

• Developed a new organizational design for a leading industrial goods company in Latin America, allowing them to transform their operative model to become more agile under a very competitive environment, and generating.
• Redefined the processes for strategy plan elaboration for a major Oil and Gas company in Latin America, and mobilized the senior and junior teams at the client towards its implementation
• Constructed a benchmark on organizational and governance models for multi-Air Operator Certificates groups for a large Latin American airline in order to provide insights on how to improve their operating model
• Redesigned processes to increase efficiency in project management for a worldwide children’s charity organization
• Conducted the strategic review for the four subsidiaries of a major Oil and Gas company in Latin America, in order to define the alternative strategic options for each of them, prioritize their implementation and.
• Participated in the preparation of digital workshops for clients in different industries in Colombia to showcase ways in which digital transformation can be used to leverage their operating models

Bogotá, Colombia

• Identified and analyzed cost-cutting initiatives to generate $30M of annual savings for a leading Oil and Gas company in Latin America, and discussed them with division managers and senior leadership

Greater Chicago Area

• Constructed statistical models in collaboration with a 4-member team to analyze global business opportunities related to the introduction of women in the workforce; identified 6 investment target markets for a.

Bogotá, Colombia

• Co-authored and co-edited the book “Economic and Social Costs of Conflict in Colombia: How to build a sustainable post-conflict?” published on April 2014, generating media attention and stimulating debate among.
• Collaborated closely with the Head of the Department of Economics to produce analyses used as framework in the 2012 peace process that aims to end a 50-year long conflict in Colombia
• Performed econometric analysis to quantify the impacts of Colombia’s armed conflict on agriculture, finding that farmers shift to less profitable crops and reduce investment
• Partnered with Colombia’s National Geographic Institute to quantitatively assess the degree of land inequality in rural areas; the results were published in the Atlas on Rural Property and are used as an input for.
• Led a 4-member team to write a research proposal, including development of the budget, timeline and scope of the project, securing $330K grant, one of the largest research initiatives at CEDE
• Presented key research results to over 200 people at the 3rd Congress of Colombian Economy

Bogotá, Colombia

Courses: Macroeconomics 3, Monetary Theory and Policy, Introduction to Microeconomics, Program Evaluation, Measuring and Accounting, Introduction to the Colombian Economy, Economics Module of Constitution and Democracy

Bogotá, Colombia

• Analyzed economic data from multiple resources on Colombia’s current economic situation and outlooks, and presented findings to the Executive Director and other senior researchers
• Analyzed the results of consumer and corporate opinion surveys carried out by Fedesarrollo and produced monthly bulletins

Bogotá, Colombia

Bogotá, Colombia

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Activities and Societies: Co-chair Latin American Business Group Admissions Fellow Business Solutions Group Leadership Challenge.

Master In Public Policy, Public Policy Analysis

Activities and Societies: Latin America Matters, Public Policy Student Association Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Program Scholarship.

M.A. In Economics, Economics

• Thesis: Impact of the Unemployment of the Household Head on the Family’s Participation in the Job Market and School Attendance of.

B.A. In Economics (Cum Laude), Economics

• Areas of Focus: Public Policies and Applied Microeconomics • Overall GPA: 4.55/5.0 • Graduated on the 3rd place among 107 students of.

Baccalaureate

• High-school diploma with academic honors