Dr Florencia Lopez Boo holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford (UK). Her work focuses on the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of public policies on child development and social protection in Latin America. She currently leads an initiative on behavioral economics and social policies and is founding member and Head of the LACEA-BRAIN (Behavioral Insights) network.  She coordinates Early  Childhood Development agenda at IDB.

She has been the main advisor in child development issues for the G20 meetings under the presidency of Argentina, achieving the historical inclusion of ECD in the final presidential communique. She has published numerous articles in specialized journals such as the Lancet, Journal of Human Resources, Pediatrics, Economic Letters, and the New York Academy of Sciences. She is also the author and co-author of several books on education and child development in Latin America and the Caribbean.  She is also a member of various global boards, including the Investing in Young Children Forum of the National Academy of Sciences, the UNESCO’s Measuring Early Learning Quality and Outcomes technical consortium and the Brookings Institution’s Costing ECD group, among others.