Professional Affiliation

Director, Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network.

Expert Bio

Gonzalo Hernández Licona is currently the director of the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN-OPHI), where he coordinates 60 countries and 19 international institutions to advance and exchange ideas about implementing Multidimensional Poverty Indicators. Gonzalo also works with UNICEF on country-led evaluations. He was a professor at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) from 1991-2002 and then the general director of monitoring and evaluation at Mexico’s Ministry of Social Development (2002-2005). Following this, Gonzalo was the executive secretary of the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Policy (CONEVAL) between 2005 and 2019, where he coordinated the evaluation of the social and the measurement of poverty at the national, state and municipality-level.