Karen Garcia Rojas is a Statistician in the Division for Gender Affairs of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and is based in Santiago, Chile. She coordinates knowledge-generation activities on gender inequalities using official statistics and works on organizing intergovernmental technical exchange forums and technical assistance initiatives to strengthen the capacity for producing and using gender statistics in countries across the region. She is an economist from the National University of Colombia and holds a master’s degree in economics from Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia.

Previously, she worked for a decade in the formulation, analysis, and communication of data for public policy in government and academia in Colombia. She led the Gender and Intersectionality Unit at Colombia’s National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE), worked as a data analyst at the District Observatory for Victims of the Armed Conflict of the Bogotá Mayor’s Office, and served as an economic advisor in the Senate of the Republic. She was also part of the “Young Researchers” program in the Faculty of Economics at Universidad del Rosario, where she specialized in development and behavioral economics, and she was an intern at the Center for Regional Economic Studies of the Bank of the Republic of Colombia in Cartagena.