FERNANDA
WANDERLEY

Born in Brazil, she has been a Bolivian citizen since 1992 and is the mother of two daughters. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University in 2005. She also holds an M.A. in Sociology from Columbia University (1999) and a Master’s degree from the Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ) (1993). She received her B.A. in Social Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Since October 2016, she has served as Director of the Instituto de Investigaciones Socio-Económicas (IISEC) at the Universidad Católica Boliviana “San Pablo”. From 2007 to 2016, she was a researcher and professor at the Graduate Program in Development Sciences (CIDES) of the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, where she held several leadership positions, including Director of Research, Coordinator of the Social Area, and Coordinator of both the Multidisciplinary Doctoral Program in Development Sciences and the Master’s Program in Plural, Solidarity, and Community Economy. She has coordinated social and economic research projects in collaboration with universities and research institutes in Norway, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, and Spain. She has also been a visiting professor and researcher at the University of Padua, the University of Gothenburg, the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, the Universitat de Barcelona, and the Autonomous University of Madrid. Her professional experience also includes consultancy work for the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank, among others. Her main research areas include inclusive and sustainable development, critical development perspectives, care economy, social and solidarity economy, economic sociology, and gender-based violence. She has published books, book chapters, peer-reviewed academic articles, and working papers on these topics.