Veronica is a Professor at Instituto de Economía (Iecon) from Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración at Universidad de la República (Udelar) in Uruguay. She integrates the National System of Researchers (Level II). She is also Research Fellow at the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP).
Previously, she was the Director of ECLAC Office in Montevideo and she worked for the Social Development Division of ECLAC (United Nations).
Her research interests are development economics, gender and labor economics, with emphasis on Uruguay and Latin America