M.Sc. in applied economics, Johns Hopkins University; B.Sc. in economics and finance, School of Banking and Commerce
Samantha Perez Davila is a Ph.D. student in the Research, Analysis, and Design stream at Pardee RAND Graduate School and an assistant policy analyst at RAND. She has a master's degree in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor's in economics and finance.
Before joining Pardee RAND, she was a research associate at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico. There, she acted as the executive coordinator of the Drug Policy Program, where she managed research projects analyzing Mexico's drug policy, violence levels, and the government's strategy to address insecurity. She also taught public economics at the public policy undergraduate program.
Perez Davila has also worked as a consultant for the Interamerican Development Bank, developing monitoring and evaluation plans for labor markets, social security, and international trade projects in Latin American and the Caribbean. Her research interests include violence and security, organized crime, drug policy, labor markets, and impact evaluation.
Atuesta, Laura and Samantha Perez Davila, "Fragmentation and Cooperation: the evolution of organized crime in Mexico," Trends in Organized Crime, 2018
