Alicia Guzmán is an Ecuadorian PhD candidate in Public Policy at the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico City. She is a full-time CONACYT Scholar, a publicly funded Mexican agency. Previously, Alicia worked as an Associate Professor and advisor to the Provos
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Alicia Guzmán is an Ecuadorian PhD candidate in Public Policy at the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico City. She is a full-time CONACYT Scholar, a publicly funded Mexican agency. Previously, Alicia worked as an Associate Professor and advisor to the Provost Office at Ecuador´s University of Government (IAEN). Due to her multidisciplinary background, her classes belonged to both, public policy and international policy.
Her first immersion to government as an academic took place at University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill where she was a Fulbright Scholar between
2007 and 2008. Her experience involved various classes as well as research at the Environmental Finance Center (EFC) of this university. In these 18 months, Alicia was part of a major research for the North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund and many other EFC projects that involved public policy evaluation.
Alicia´s Fulbright program is the Humphrey Fellowship, a program for young and mid-career professionals sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. Alicia was chosen due to her experience in designing social and environmental projects in every Ecuadorian province. Approximately 150 projects with different ethnic communities across Ecuador prove her engagement. Also, her experience at USAID Ecuador as part of the Economic Growth Team, gave her a macro perspective. USAID chose her as part of its Board of Directors due to her book that was her master´s thesis, which assessed the impact of Plan Colombia to International Aid for Ecuador. Alicia was also a scholar at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Quito.
Currently, Alicia presides the Triple Salto Foundation in Ecuador, a NGO funded by her to promote sustainability. Her main interests are her PhD thesis, national parks, sports, and volunteerism.
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