Dorotea López is a full Professor at the University of Chile and Director

of the Institute of International Studies. Shel is an economist from the

Mexican Autonomos International Institute, ITAM. After that she was
granted the Ford and Conacyt scholarships and obtained a Master of
Philosophy in Economics at Cambridge University, UK. She holds a PhD
in Social Sciences at the University of Chile, with the thesis of “The
economic development strategies of Chile:The case of the export of
services since 1990”.
She worked at the Mexican Central Bank Operation Division, at the
Mexican Economic Secretary, as the OECD Area Director. Afterwards,
joined the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as an economist in the
area of Trade in Services and Investment. She holds the WTO Chair
from Chile. With the Chair team they started a Master Programme in
Trade Policy and founded the Latin American Journal of Trade Policy.
She is a researcher of the ICLAC Millennium Nucleus on China and
Latin American Relations. Her main areas of interest and publication
are trade policy services and gender.