President-elect Luis Abinader announced the names of three women named to the David Collado team at the Ministry of Tourism. These are Jacqueline Mora, Yaneris Then Medina and Patricia Mejía. El Nuevo Diario reports on their background.
Jacqueline Mora
She is appointed Tourism Technical Deputy Minister. She is an economist, with a Master’s degree in Financial Economics from the Chile Pontifical Catholic University. At the university, she specialized in Applied Macroeconomics and carried out postgraduate studies in Pure Mathematics. She was a consultant for the United Nations Development Program as Deputy-Coordinator for the First UN Human Development Report of the Dominican Republic.
She also worked as an economist for the World Bank, where she was involved in economic analysis, poverty and catastrophic risks for the Caribbean region. She is co-author of the book “Microenterprises and Productivity: A View from the Labor Market”. In the private sector, she has lead teams in business intelligence and data mining for communications and finance corporations.
Jacqueline Mora has taught Macroeconomics and Econometrics in leading Dominican universities. She has been an economic advisor to both the public and private sectors on strategic intelligence issues.
In 2011 she started Analytica, a consulting firm that applies intelligence and big data to economic analysis and projects with an impact on business. Analytica advises many financial institutions in the country, and has carried out sectoral impact studies for tourism, mining, free zone manufacturing, and energy companies.
Patricia Mejía
She is appointed Deputy Minister for Destination Management. She is a lawyer, with a Master’s degree in Business Law from the University of Chile and a Master’s degree in Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) with a double major from the University of Louvain.
She has completed diplomas and specialties at Florida International University on International Trade Negotiations, at the University of Santiago de Chile (USACH) on International Negotiations and at the Institute of International Relations of the University of Chile in Integration and Regional Cooperation Processes. She has a specialty in negotiations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
She graduated in law from the Autonomous State University (UASD) in Santo Domingo.
Previously, she was the Technical Secretary of the City Council of the National District.
She is a founding partner and president of Integra Trade and Investment Advisor, as well as a consultant on foreign trade and foreign investment issues at the Customs Agency and the United States Agency for Development (USAID).
Yaneris Then Medina
She is appointed Administrative Deputy Minister. She has a Master’s Degree in Tax Accounting from the Santo Domingo Autonomous University (UASD), a degree in Accounting from UNAPEC, and a degree in Law from Unicaribe. She has worked extensively in public service and private business.
From 2016 to date she has been the administrative director of the National District Council.
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El Nuevo Diario
22 July 2020