Marcela Eslava is a professor and dean of economics at Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá. She is also a research affiliate of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) and the Innovations for Poverty Action’s Small and Medium Enterprises Program. Eslava’s current research interests include the effect of the COVID-19 crisis on the labor market and firms in developing economies, the relationship between firm dynamics and regulations, the relationship between business growth and the evolution of productivity vs. demand in firms, the effect of credit constraints on business performance and aggregate productivity, and the policy alternatives to address financial restrictions to businesses. Her research has been published in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Review of Economic Dynamics, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Development Economics. Eslava has been awarded the Global Development Network’s Medal for Research on Development and the Latin American Econometric Society’s Mario Henrique Simonsen Memorial Lecture. She was also chief co-editor for Economía, the journal of the LACEA. Eslava is a voting member of the Latin American Standing Committee of the Econometric Society and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics. She holds a PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park.