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Sonia Plaza (World Bank)

Monday, 25 January 2010 11:07

Sonia Plaza is currently a Senior Economist in the Development Economics Prospect Group of the World Bank. She has worked on Science and Technology projects in Latin American and co-authored a major analytical survey of migration and development for the Africa region.

Sonia Plaza's blog

Sonia was born in Lima, Peru. Her father had a constructing firm, so some of her earliest childhood memories are of traveling with him to poor areas including Ayacucho where he was working on projects. This is how she was first exposed to development work, and it shaped her.

Sonia attended the University of Lima and earned a degree in Economics, after which she joined Chase Manhattan Bank, and was then invited to join the Peruvian Ministry of Trade as a manager responsible for counter trade and debt swap agreements.  She also has a dual degree from Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania in International Economics and Development.