Mayra Buvinic

Mayra Buvinic is Chief, Social Development Division, Sustainable Development Department and Special Advisor on Violence, Inter-American Development Bank. Before joining the Bank, Dr. Buvinic was a founding member and President of the International Center for Research on Women. She has published in the areas of poverty and gender, employment promotion, small enterprise development, reproductive health and, more recently, violence reduction. A Chilean citizen, she holds a PhD in social psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.