Felipe Barrera-Osorio

Felipe Barrera-Osorio is a Professor of Public Policy, Education, and Economics at Vanderbilt University. He currently studies the effects of various school- and system-wide education policies in developing countries. His research focuses on two main areas of education policy: (i) interventions aimed at increasing family and student investment in education, and (ii) public-private partnership educational policies in low- and middle-income countries.

Felipe serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness and is affiliated with IZA and RISE. Before joining Vanderbilt, he was an associate professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, a senior economist at the World Bank, and the deputy director and researcher at Fedesarrollo, an independent policy think tank in Bogotá, Colombia. In 2008, he received the Juan Luis Londoño Medal, an award given every two years to a Colombian economist under the age of 40.

Felipe holds a PhD in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.