Francisca Dussaillant is an economist. She studied Chemical Engineering and earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the Universidad Católica de Chile, along with a Master of Arts in Education from UNC Chapel Hill as a Fulbright Scholar. In Chile, she had a long and prolific career. She was the Director of the Center for Public Policy at Universidad del Desarrollo, where she also taught economics and public policy. She served as a Councillor at the Chilean Education Council and was the Chief of Labor and Social Policy at the Chilean Ministry of Finance. Additionally, she worked for the Centro de Estudios Públicos and Horizontal think tanks, both with a classical liberal orientation, and was an in-house consultant at the Chilean office of the United Nations Development Program. Since her recent arrival in Canada, she has worked as a consultant. Ms Dussaillant has written more than 40 indexed studies and participated in several policy reports and briefs focusing on governmental policy in areas including education, labor markets, health, social development, and economic policy. She is particularly interested in understanding the drivers of a nation’s economic development.