Karen Watkins was born in Costa Rica, on April 15th, 1976. She studied Economics at the University of Costa Rica, and afterwards pursued the MSc in Economics and Finance degree at The University of Warwick, U.K.. Currently she is PhD Candidate in Finance at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her research interests are corporate governance, corporate finance, international finance, and health economics. Her academic inclination commenced during 1997, as teacher assistant for Microeconomics courses. Ever since, she has taught at different universities in Costa Rica, Mexico, and The Netherlands. She has been member of the Mexican Academia of Business Administration (ACACIA), and the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), and has presented her work at several international conferences such as LACEA Annual Congress (both in Madrid and San Jose), and the Infiniti Conference on International Finance (Dublin). Nowadays Karen Watkins is university lecturer and researcher at UPAEP (Puebla, Mexico), as well as researcher for the Merck Company Foundation. She is married and has one child.
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