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Eunice Heredia-Ortiz, Ph.D.

Dr. Eunice Heredia-Ortiz is a public finance expert and renowned economist with over 20 years of experience advising ministries of finance, tax administrations, and international development agencies on tax policy & administration, budgeting, and public financial management, fiscal decentralization, public procurement modernization, transparency & anti-corruption, digital transformation, and anti-corruption. Her wealth of experience spans across continents, including countries in Latin America, South Asia, and the Middle East, providing technical thought leadership in program design and implementation, program evaluation, capacity building, and information technology (IT) transformations for PFM.

She has been recognized for her ability to think and work politically, fostering reform commitment and institutionalizing change, identifying innovative approaches, promoting adaptive management, and developing tools and technologies to provide effective assistance while inculcating a performance-driven culture in government planning and program implementation. Recently, she served as Chief of Party for the USAID-funded Guatemala National Institutions Strengthening Project and the Fiscal and Procurement Reform Project, supporting Guatemala’s Ministry of Finance, Tax Administration, the Planning Secretariat, and the Presidential Commission for Open and Electronic Government, to achieve more efficient tax revenue collection, to improve budget planning, to enhance public procurement processes, and to promote digital government transformation through PFM by eliminating duplication, increasing automation, integrating risk management approaches, while reducing opportunities for corruption.

Dr. Heredia-Ortiz has authored numerous reports, articles, and best practice guides and has trained hundreds on key topics related to fiscal policy and public financial management. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.