Camilo Andres Avila Ceballos

Camilo Andres Avila Ceballos

Operations Officer in Ecuador

Camilo Andres is the Operations Officer of the World Bank in Ecuador, where he provides support to portfolio management and continues to support the justice reform agenda mainly in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). He joined the World Bank as a Consultant in June 2010 with the LAC region. At the Bank he has worked on several projects related to justice sector reform, security, access to justice, legal aid mechanisms, justice for the poor, management models, monitoring systems, tax litigation, regulation of statistics institutions, legal contingencies, among others, in countries such as Colombia, Peru, Mexico, El Salvador, Paraguay, Equatorial Guinea, Morocco, Serbia, and Pakistan. 

Camilo Andres is a Lawyer and a Historian and has graduate degrees in History and Anthropology from the Universidad de los Andes (Bogota, Colombia) and is currently finishing an Interculturality and Development specialization in FLACSO Ecuador. Previously, he worked as a researcher with Universidad de los Andes, the Racial Discrimination Observatory, and NGOs. He has also collaborated on projects with USAID and the Inter-American Development Bank. The main topics he has worked on are racial discrimination in Colombia, prisoners' conditions, access to justice, history of law, and empirically-based projects in the justice sector.