Author: Pablo Egana-delSol

Pablo Egana-delSol holds a Ph.D. in Sustainable Development from Columbia University and a Master and BA in Economics at University of Chile. He is an Associate Professor at UAI Business School in Chile, visiting fellow at the Future of Work Centre at the University of Oxford, and visiting scholar at the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. With extensive experience advising governments, corporations, NGOs, and multinational institutions across Latin America, he was the Chief Microeconomist (Head of Microeconomics) at the Ministry of Finance in Chile and currently leads the Future of Work expert working group in the Senate of Chile. Previously, he was the founding director of the Master in Sustainable Business program at UAI Business School, an Assistant Professor at the Asia School of Business, Kuala Lumpur, International Faculty Fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management, and Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on two main areas: exploring the future of work in developing economies and employing advanced methodologies to understand how workforce reskilling can address these emerging challenges. His findings have been published in prestigious journals such as the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA), Nature’s Scientific Reports, MIT Sloan Management Review, Sustainable Development, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change, among others. Pablo is currently a Research Fellow at IZA, an Invited Researcher at J-PAL, and Principal Researcher at the Millennium Center for the Evolution of Work (MNEW). He is also affiliated with EGAP and the Fairwork project at the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute. In addition, he serves as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank, contributing his expertise on labor markets, technological transitions, and inclusive development.