Mariana Marchionni is a consultant at the World Bank and a Senior Researcher at the Center for Distributive, Labor and Social Studies (CEDLAS) at the National University of La Plata (UNLP) in Argentina. She is a Professor of Economics at UNLP, a researcher at CONICET, Director of the Master’s Program in Economics at UNLP, and co-founder of GenLAC, CEDLAS’s initiative on gender equality in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her research focuses on gender, labor, education, and development economics. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from UNLP and completed postdoctoral studies at the University of British Columbia.