Virginia is a team member of the World Bank’s Global Program on Justice and the Rule of Law. In her role, she has participated in several knowledge and analytical initiatives to support clients and country teams in the area of judicial reform and access to justice. She has led the deployment of the justice sector assessment methodology (JUPITER) in South Sudan and contributed to its pilot deployment in Liberia. Her work also includes providing technical assistance to project teams on justice sector engagement, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected settings (FCS). She has authored and collaborated on various knowledge products related to access to justice and judicial reform, covering topics such as judicial effectiveness, digital justice, judicial budgeting, and judicial selection. Virginia graduated as a lawyer from the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) and holds a Master of Laws in International Legal Studies from Georgetown University. Prior to joining the World Bank, she worked as an attorney at a corporate law firm in Bogota and as a judicial law clerk at the Constitutional Court of Colombia.