Carmen Blandón

Senior Specialist at BID Lab, Carmen is a career economist, serves as the Discovery Officer for El Salvador at BID Lab of the Inter-American Development Bank Group. She has been with the institution for over five years, promoting inclusion through co-creating innovative projects with entrepreneurs, startups, and other ecosystem members. Before this role, she led entrepreneurship and innovation initiatives and contributed to the competitive development of small and medium-sized enterprises in Central America and the Dominican Republic. Carmen graduated with an MBA from the Central American University "José Simeón Cañas" and studied Economics at the University of El Salvador. Additionally, she has received international training in methodologies and tools for developing innovation strategies and user-centered design.