Current Position:
Education Senior Associate at the Inter-American Development Bank
Luana is an Education Senior Associate at the Inter-American Development Bank. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology of Education and International Comparative Education from Stanford University. Her current work focuses on issues related to teacher allocation in Latin America, including exploration of patterns and drivers of teacher shortage; evaluation of strategies to attract teachers to hard-to-staff schools; and investigation of alternative forms of teacher hiring and their implications for education quality.