Luis Aguilar Luna is a consultant to the World Bank and is currently working on the relationship between trade and labor market outcomes across a variety of countries. He has also contributed to projects exploiting Mexican firm-level data and effects of financial crises.
Luis is currently a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. His doctoral research lies at the intersection of Labor Economics and Economics of Crime, in particular, the formality decisions of firms and how they are affected by criminal activity.
Prior to that he worked as a financial researcher at the Bank of Mexico in the Financial Stability Unit where he helped improve stress tests. Luis holds a bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and an MSc in Economics from El Colegio de México.