Andrés Moya Rodriguez

Commissioner

Associate Professor at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Andrés works in the field of Development Economics and focuses on understanding the consequences of conflict and forced displacement and how they thrust people into poverty through economic, psychological, and behavioral channels. He builds upon this knowledge to design and evaluate interventions to mitigate some of these consequences and foster movements out of poverty. 

The prime example of this work is Semillas de Apego, a community-based psychosocial program for caregivers of young children in communities exposed to conflict and forced displacement. This program promotes maternal mental health as an outcome and as a pathway to protect children from the effects of early childhood adversities. Semillas de Apego has been implemented and evaluated in different phases to demonstrate its validity, impact, and potential for scaleup, and is being scaled up currently to reach 15,000 caregivers and 20,000 children in 15 municipalities in Colombia. 

Andrés is a member or affiliated researcher at different networks, including EGAP, JPAL-LAC, the Care and Protection of Children Learning Network, and the Internal Displacement Research Programme at the University of London. Between 2021 and 2022, he was the Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University.