Mónica Ballesteros Arias ’11

Mónica Ballesteros Arias
Mónica Ballesteros is an economic development policy expert passionate about merging data, evidence-based policy and storytelling to drive change.

She was recently appointed as the General Director for Institutional Strategy at Mexico’s Ministry of Health and was previously a senior research manager at Economist Impact, an independent think tank embedded in The Economist Group.

Mónica was an Albright Fellow in 2010 and is honored to contribute to Secretary Albright's goal of building an institute that educates and inspires a cadre of Wellesley students to create a more just world.

She holds an M.A.L.D in International Finance and Economics from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, a B.A. in Political Science from Wellesley College and is also a graduate from the United World College of the Atlantic. She has received prestigious scholarships from the Fletcher School’s Bosworth Scholarship Fund, Mexico’s National Council for Humanities, Science, and Technology (CONACYT), the Davis UWC Scholars Program, and UWC Mexico.