About us
We are a corporate formed by a team with extensive professional experience in the design and implementation of instruments and strategies for development, equal opportunities and poverty reduction.
We are a corporate formed by a team with extensive professional experience in the design and implementation of instruments and strategies for development, equal opportunities and poverty reduction.
Roberto has experience in the design and execution of public policy. His work has been related to development, poverty reduction, inequality, and social mobility.
He is one of the founding partners of the corporate INCLUSIÓN SAS, which designs instruments, policies, strategies, and programs for social and productive inclusion. He was coordinator of the equity chapter of the current National Development Plan 2018-2022; coordinator of the design and implementation of the monetary transfers program Bogotá Solidaria en Casa (in the framework of the COVID-19 pandemic), and served as national director of Familias en Acción and Jóvenes en Acción, conditional cash transfer programs in Colombia at the Department for Social Prosperity (DPS). At the National Planning Department (DNP), he was the national director of Sisbén, the targeting system in Colombia, also Technical Secretary of the DNP’s Equity and Social Mobility Mission, and the Technical Secretary of the Mission for the Splicing of the Poverty and Inequality Series (MESEP), as well as co-author of the Poverty Index Multidimensional of Colombia. He is currently a professor at the Universidad de Los Andes and the Universidad del Norte.
MSc Urban Economic Development, University College London (UCL) | Master’s degree in Economics, Universidad Nacional | Economics, Universidad Javeriana
Francisco has experience designing programs that improve people’s quality of life and developing targeting strategies to enhance the effective distribution of resources. During his professional career, he has focused on building new ways of developing inclusive social and economic policies according to the needs of communities, companies, and governments. He has worked as Deputy Director of Education and Advisor in public policies evaluation at the National Planning Department (DNP), National Director of the Familias en Acción and Jovenes en Acción, Conditional cash transfer in Colombia, and Advisor to the Vice Ministry of Social Protection. As a partner and co-founder of Inclusion, he has led nearly 30 projects and program designs for national and Latin American clients such as Deloitte, UNICEF, FAO, UNDP, Promigas Foundation, Saldarriaga Concha Foundation, and the National University of Colombia.
Master’s degree in Economics, Universidad Javeriana | Economics, Universidad Javeriana
Dalma is an economist with experience estimating territorial indicators for poverty measures, public management, and efficiency. She was an advisor for the Directorate of Decentralisation and Territorial Development at the DPN where she accompanied the process of the redesign of the municipal performance measurement, the creation of the Terridata platform, and the construction of the pact for decentralization: connecting territories, governments, and populations.
She has worked in consulting firms and public entities such as the District Secretariat of Finance and the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá as a quantitative and geo-referenced information analyst, supporting the elaboration of monitoring and evaluating public policy documents.
Economist and Master’s degree in Economics, Universidad de Los Andes.
Ana has a master’s degree in economics and a degree in government and international relations. She has experience formulating public policies and social programs, measuring and analyzing multidimensional poverty, and legislative topics. During her professional career, she coordinated the formulation of guidelines for the National Policy for LGBTI people for the Ministry of the Interior. She accompanied the design and implementation of Mi Familia, a program for strengthening family skills and prevention of violence against children and adolescents at the ICBF. She has worked on multidimensional childhood poverty research and as an advisor on legislative issues at the Ministry of the Environment.
Master’s degree in Economics – PEG, Universidad de los Andes | Government and International Relations, Universidad Externado de Colombia
Diana has extensive experience designing and implementing public policies and development projects in the labor, health, and social protection sectors. She served as Deputy Minister in Social Protection (Ministry of Health), General Director of ADRES, Director of Sector Financing (Ministry of Health), Director of employment and job training at the Ministry of Labor, health and social protection specialist for Colombia at the World Bank, Sisbén Coordinator and Health Advisor at the DPN.
MSc Social Policy and Social Research, University College London (UCL) | Master’s degree in Economics, Universidad de los Andes | Economics, Universidad Nacional
Juan Pablo has experience in the design and implementation of social programs and the development of policies. He worked as Technical Director for the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF) and as Territorial Development Advisor for the National Planning Department (DPN). He also worked for the National Agency for Overcoming Extreme Poverty (ANSPE) and at the Mayor’s Office of Bogotá.
Political Scientist and Philosopher, Universidad de los Andes | Economics Specialist, Universidad de los Andes | Master in Public Administration (MPA), London School Of Economics (LSE)
Natalia has experience in the design and evaluation of social policies that focus on poverty reduction. Her professional career has focused on the relationship between poverty and education, poverty and security, and poverty and climate change. She was part of the team that designed Bogotá Solidaria, a cash and in-kind transfer program to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 in the capital city of Colombia. She was also part of the team that built the roadmap for the implementation of the PDETs, which later became the transition phase from armed conflict to peace in the most affected areas by violence and poverty in Colombia. In the last two years, she has worked on the evaluation of the effects of climate change on poverty in Colombia and the impact evaluation of the effects of cash transfers on violence against women in Bogotá. She is currently a professor at Universidad de Los Andes.
Master’s degree in Public Policy, Universidad de los Andes | Master’s degree in Peacebuilding, Universidad de los Andes | Philosophy, University of Antioquia
Alejandro is a statistician with experience estimating poverty indicators, creating data banks using statistical operations, and supporting the design and implementation of adjustment mechanisms for the Subsidized Regime (RS). He was an advisor for the Directorate of Social Development in the DNP where he designed methods for measuring current income and developed the pioneering models to input missing information in the Household Surveys for the Mission for the Splicing of the Employment, Poverty, and Inequality Series (MESEP). He later worked as Deputy Director for Social Promotion and Quality of Life in the DNP (National Sisbén Coordinator) and participated in the technical committee of the World Bank, ECLAC, and Banco de la República for the design of the fourth methodological version of the Sisbén. In the Ministry of Health, he supported, as a consultant, the design of the solidarity contribution mechanism for the RS.
Statistics, Universidad Nacional | Specialist in Social Economy, Universidad de los Andes | He is currently studying for a Master’s degree in Philosophy at Universidad Javeriana
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