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María Aguilera is an economist from Universidad de Cartagena with a graduate degree in finance from Universidad EAFIT a master degree in Business Administration from Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga (UNAB) and Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar (UTB) in agreement with the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). She is currently Head of the Regional Center for Economic Studies (CREE) at Banco de la República (the Central Bank of of Colombia) in Cartagena. Her main research areas are regional economics, natural resources, environmental economics, and economic history.