Rebeca is a Senior Lecturer in Economics. She joined the Westminster Business School in September 2008. Previously, she was Teaching Fellow and Named Internal Examiner at the Department of Economics and Business School at the University of Warwick, respectively. She was also Teaching Assistant at the Department of Economics and Management School at the University of Leicester.
Rebecca graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) with a first class degree in Economics and a postgraduate diploma in Mathematics Applied to Economics. After working at the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Computational Sciences (INEGI) as the Head of Prices and in VALMEX as a Fellow Economics Analyst, she moved to the United Kingdom to continue her studies. She graduated from the University of Warwick with a M.Sc. in Quantitative Development Economics and from the University of Leicester with a PhD in Economics.
L&T PGA (Warwick) PhD (Leicester) MSc (Warwick) PG Dip (UNAM) BSc (UNAM)
Rebecca's research interests include applied macroeconomics, emerging economies and monetary policy. With a further interest in small firms finance and organisational behaviour.