Fernanda Martínez Flores is a researcher at the RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research (Essen). She studied economics at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Mexico) and Aalto University (Finland). She obtained her Master’s degree and Ph.D. in Economics from the Ruhr University Bochum. She is an applied economist, mainly interested in development, education, and migration economics.

Fernanda Martínez Flores joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in March 2021.