Dr. Monica Pinilla is a physiotherapist from Universidad del Rosario with master’s degrees in Economics from the same university and in Health Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam. She earned her PhD in Social Policy from the University of Birmingham in 2015. From 2016 to 2018, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de los Andes, where she now serves as Assistant Professor. She is also the Deputy Director of the SDG Center for Latin America and the Caribbean, and an Associate Researcher at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, where she previously served as Director of Metrics and Policy. Her research focuses on disability, poverty, health economics, and equity. Dr. Pinilla has contributed to UN expert groups on disability and has worked extensively across Latin America, Africa, and Asia.