David Rodríguez Guerrero is a PhD in Economics from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom, he has a Master in Economics from the University of Southampton, and is an Economist from Universidad Externado de Colombia. He has more than ten years of experience as a researcher and consultant focusing on labour economics, distributive incidence of taxes and benefits, and microfounded macroeconomic models. He is currently a lecturer-researcher at the Faculty of Economics of the Externado de Colombia University where he is the leader of the COLMOD: a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Colombia project and teaches microeconomics at the undergraduate and graduate levels.