Atenea De La Cruz Brito

Biography: Consultant in urban development and housing. Professor at university and postgraduate level with more than ten years of experience. She has collaborated in research projects such as developed by COLEF for the Ministry of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (SEDATU) and the Program for Social Cohesion in Latin America (EUROsociAL) funded by the European Union. She is currently a member of the Tijuana Leadership Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) San Diego-Tijuana District Council. Dr. Atenea received her Ph.D. in Economic Science with Honorable Mention from the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC) with the dissertation “Cross-border housing markets between Mexico, the United States and Canada: submarkets and asymmetric information”. M.Cs. in Applied Economics from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) with the thesis "Land price formation in the urban area of Tijuana". Winner of the second place of the Eliseo Mendoza 2019 Award to the Economic Analysis of Regional Development with the article "Effect of migration and neighborhood characteristics on real estate prices in the urban area of Tijuana". She studied a Master 1 in Economics and Society at Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense in Paris, France from 2012 to 2013 and in 2018 she completed a research stay at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).