Susana is the Director of de Research Economic Center of the Universidad de Las Américas. Her main research interest is Inequality. She works on Applied Economics, Labor Economics, Urban Economics and Public Economics. She is member of the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS). She has a Ph.D. in Applied Economics and a Post Ph.D. in Inequality in Latin America from the Freie Universität Berlin.