Professor of the Department of Social and Political Sciences of Universidad del Pacífico and researcher at CIUP. She is a Ph.D. in Political Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE (England); M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison (United States); and a Bachelor in Economics from the Universität zu Köln (Germany). She has been a fellow of the Fulbright program, the Naumann Foundation for Freedom and the DAAD. She has served as a Professor of political science courses both in universities in Peru and abroad. She has researched about immigration and refugee policies in Latin America and south-south immigration from countries in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Her doctoral thesis shows that the liberalization of migration policies in Latin America originates from the rejection of restrictive immigration policies in North America and Europe. She has provided advice to various international institutions and organizations such as the Naumann Foundation for Freedom, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the European Union (EU) in Germany, Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador and South Africa. She is an affiliate of the Refugee Law Initiative at the University of London and a founding member of the International Collective of Young Researchers on Migration (CIJIM). She is also a member of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and the American Political Science Association (APSA).