Agnes Gabriela Medinaceli Baldivieso
Nationality: Bolivian
email: [email protected], [email protected]
Education
2015-2016
2008-2012
M.Sc. Latin American Development (awarded with distinction) at King’s College
London, England.
Thesis Topic: “Finding the dominant forces behind universalism in the Bolivian
pension system”.
B.Sc. (Hons) Economics at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Work Experience
2016Junior researcher, Institute of Advanced Development Studies (INESAD), Bolivia.
 Doing research for the “Safeguarding Sustainable Development” project led by
Kevin Gallagher, co-director of the Global Economic Governance Initiative and
Global Development Policy Program, Boston University.
 Co-author of the “Global Green Accounting 2016” report.
2016
Research assistant, King’s College London – Department of International
Development, England.
 Researched and constructed databases for the report published by the
European Parliament. Boesten, J. (2016) Study: Sexual violence against minors
in Latin America. Directorate-General for External Policies. European
Parliament.
2015
Ambassador Intern (programme financed by the Danish Embassy in Bolivia),
Institute of Advanced Development Studies (INESAD), Bolivia.
 Co-authored study published by PLOS ONE on net carbon emissions from
deforestation in Bolivia.
 Proofread and edited the “Global Green Accounting 2015” report.
2013
Intern, Central Bank of Bolivia, Asesoría de Política Económica, Bolivia.
 Worked doing research and constructing databases.
 Revised all the Latin American Central Bank laws. Part of the team that
composed Law 393 (Financial Services Law in Bolivia).
Prizes/ Funding
 First prize (£1000) at King’s College London “Second Social Entrepreneurship Competition”
(March 23, 2016). Name of the project: “Casa Fuerte”, a proposal empowering and formalising
domestic workers by creating a secure platform connecting them to potential employers in
Monterrey, Mexico. Members: Agnes Medinaceli, Pedro Pablo Cortés, Maren Kateraas, Kelli
McGuire, and Nabil Valencia. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/idi/People/Academicstaff/Kingstone/Social-Entrepreneurship-Initiative.aspx
 Received funding from IFAIR (Young Initiative on Foreign Affairs and International Relations) to
attend the first LACalytics conference held in Hamburg’s Parliament (October, 2016).
http://ifair.eu/latin-america-caribbean-europe-stand-side-side/
Language
Spanish – native; English – fluent; French – elementary.
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Publications
 Andersen, L., Medinaceli, A., and Fenton, I. (Forthcoming) Green Accounting 2016: An
annual annotated bibliography of green national accounting efforts around the world.
Fundación INESAD.
 Medinaceli, A. and D’Amico, E. (2016) Taking the environment into account: the first step
towards a greener growth. In: Lieb, T., Fried, L., Klein, J., Klever, J., and Scheifele, F. (Eds.)
EU-LAC Cooperation in the 21st Century: Combining Efforts in a Globalised World. IFAIR, pp.
60-66. http://ifair.eu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Final-Publication-EN.pdf
 Andersen, L., Doyle, A., Ledezma, J., Medinaceli, A., Valdivia, M., and Weinhold, D. (2015)
Net Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in Bolivia during 1990-2000 and 2000-2010:
Results
from
a
carbon
bookkeeping
model.
PLoS
One.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0151241
 Medinaceli, A. (2013) Financimiento de las Empresas a traves de la Bolsa de Valores. In:
APEC- Informe de Política Económica (Julio)- Banco Central de Bolivia, Pp. 27-30.
Relevant Course
2014
“Power Shift: The Decline in the West, the Rise of the BRICS and a World Order in a
New Asian Century” at the London School of Economics and Political Science
(Summer, 2014).
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