Speakers

Professor Ricardo Paes de Barros holds a degree in electronic engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico da Aeronáutica (ITA), a master's degree in statistics from the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago and the Center for Economic Growth at Yale University. He was the Undersecretary for Strategic Actions at the Secretariat for Strategic Affairs of the Presidency of the Republic. He was a member of IPEA for more than 30 years, dedicating himself to studies of inequality, poverty, the labor market, and education. He is currently a professor at Insper and is dedicated to generating scientific evidence for the formulation and evaluation of public policies.

Flavia is the Impact Director at Acrux Partners, leading impact evaluation and measurement projects as well as research and consultancy development. She holds a degree in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires and completed specialisation courses in Monitoring and Evaluation Tools for Social Impact Projects at the University of San Andrés, Argentina. She has experience in the development and implementation of measurement, impact evaluation and data management studies, including: the design of an impact measurement system for a financing line of the Banco de Desarrollo Productivo in Bolivia (BDP) evaluating the socio-economic recovery of MSMEs; a system for measuring the impact of banking on sustainable development for the Asociación de Bancos Privados de Bolivia (ASOBAN); and the strategy for the collection, analysis and use of data on mass consumption prices for the design of public policies for the Secretariat of Commerce (Ministry of Production of Argentina). She oversaw the evaluation of the Social Impact Bond of the City of Buenos Aires and has participated in the development of metrics, indicators, reporting and monitoring systems for payment by results contracts in education in the Province of Salta, Argentina (UNDP), on refugee population (Open Society) and for the Argentine Food Bank Network (Fundación Alimentaris). She also has experience in accompanying various organisations in the definition of their Theories of Change and the selection of impact measurement indicators. She has published studies on impact investment in Latin America and on impact investment with a gender perspective in various countries in the region.