Alejandro U. Becerra-Ornelas

Alejandro Becerra is an assistant policy researcher at RAND and a Ph.D. candidate at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.

At RAND, he is collaborating in different multidisciplinary projects, including an analysis of the effects of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill; a robust decision-making analysis of water management strategies in Mendoza, Argentina, in coordination with the InterAmerican Development Bank; an international drug price comparison; an analysis of the European monetary system crisis; and a systematic review of 9/11 and its effect on NYC populations.

Prior to joining RAND, Becerra was the deputy director of fiscal policy at the Mexican Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, where he assessed the fiscal, energy and telecommunications reforms implemented in Mexico and their effects on growth, inflation, trade and consumption. He was also a research and teaching assistant at CIDE for the Faculty of Economics, where he worked in different projects including topics such as technical efficiency, regional development, commuting, environmental economics and operations research. Currently, he is working as an external consultant for the Mexican Ministry of Energy in a project that analyses the optimal location for biogas biorefineries in the country. 

Becerra has a B.A. in public policy from the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico.