Adriana Molina Garzón

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EDUCATION
University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Public Policy. Department of Political Science. 
May 2022

University of Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia 
Master of Economics. March 2011
Bachelor's degree in Business Management, with emphasis in Economics 
 
ADDITIONAL COURSEWORK
Workshop on Institutional Analysis. The Ronald Coase Institute & Ostrom Center at Indiana University. December 2017. Bogota, Colombia. 
Water and Climate Change. VI Environmental and Resource Economics Training Course. Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Program LACEEP. July 2012. 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, August 2023 - Present, Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Indianapolis. 
Assistant Professor, August 2022 – May 2023, School of Public Administration, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. 
World Bank, Washington DC. Consultant – May 2022 to July 2022. Impact of climate change on human capital, Meta Analysis.
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington DC. Research Fellow, Office of Evaluation & Oversight (OVE) – March 2013 to 2016.
University of Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. Research Assistant – Management School – March 2012 – February 2013.
FEDESARROLLO, Bogotá, Colombia. Research Assistant –Economic and Social Research Center – September 2010 – July 2012.
University of Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. Research Assistant – Department of Economics – July 2009 – August 2010. Research Assistant – Management School – June 2010 – August 2010. 
Consulting Firm Strategic Opportunity, Bogotá, Colombia. Research Assistant - September 2007- May 2009.
University of Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. Research Assistant, School of Management and School of Government: Alberto Lleras Camargo. Center of Strategy and Competitiveness– November 2008 – August 2010. 

PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Molina-Garzón, A., Grillos, T., Zarychta, A., & Andersson, K. P. (Forthcoming). Social and Behavioral Effects of Decentralization on Health Services Delivery: Evidence from the Honduran Health Sector. International Journal of Public Administration.
 
Molina-Garzón, A., Gueiros, C., & Sills, E. O. (2026). Synergies between interventions: The Cadastro Ambiental Rural (CAR) and REDD+ in the Brazilian Amazon. Land Use Policy, 166, 108026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.108026
 
Molina-Garzón, A., Moros, L. M., Izquierdo-Tort, S., Savin, I., & Corbera, E. (2026). Environmental motivations in an ongoing PES program in the Colombian Amazon. Ecosystem Services.
 
Moros, L. M., Izquierdo-Tort, S., Molina-Garzón, A., & Corbera, E. (2026). Payments for Ecosystem Services and crowding: exploring the driving conditions for success or failure — Introduction to the special issue. Ecosystem Services. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2026.101906
 
Londres, M., Salk, C., Andersson, K. P., Tengö, M., Brondizio, E. S., Lopes, G. R., Sacha MO S.; Molina-Garzon, A.; Sonetti-González T.; Rázuri Montoya, D.; Futemma, C.; de Castro, F.; Tourne D. C.M (2023). Place-based solutions for global social-ecological dilemmas: An analysis of locally grounded, diversified, and cross-scalar initiatives in the Amazon. Global Environmental Change, 82, 102718. 
 
Naime Sanchez-Henkel J., Angelsen A., Molina-Garzón A., Carillho C., Selviana V., Demarchi G., Duchelle A., Martius C. (2022). Enforcement and inequality in collective PES to reduce tropical deforestation: effectiveness, efficiency and equity implications. Global Environmental Change. 
 
Molina Garzón, Adriana, Tara Grillos, Alan Zarychta & Krister Andersson. (2021) Can Decentralization Increase Social Capital among Bureaucrats? Evidence from Health Sector Reform in Honduras. American Journal of Political Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12606
 
Brondizio E., Andersson K., de Castro F., Futemma C., Salk C., Tengo M., Londres M., C.M. Tourne D., González T., Molina-Garzón A., Russo G., and Siani G. (2021) Making place-based sustainability initiatives visible in the Brazilian Amazon. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 

Andersson, K. P., Chang, K., & Molina-Garzón, A. (2020). Voluntary leadership and the emergence of institutions for self-governance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(44), 27292-27299.
 
Pfaff, Alexander; Velez, Maria A.; Ramos, Pablo; Molina, Adriana (2015). Framed field experiment on resource scarcity & extraction: Path-dependent generosity within sequential water appropriation.  Ecological Economics, 120 (2015) 416-429.   
 
Other Publications
García-Montoya, L., Molina-Garzón, A., Jean Louis, C., Ortiz-Riomalo, J. F., & Radtke, F. (2026). The Potential of Participatory Processes for Collective Action in Contexts of Wealth Inequality: a Systematic Review Protocol. PROCEED-26-00541. https://doi.org/10.57808/proceed.2026.39
 
Molina-Garzón, A., McEwen, V., Worku, A., Siani, S., Iyer, L., Adams, E., Andersson, K., & Miller, D. C. (2025). Can interventions reduce extreme poverty and conserve the environment in rural areas? Evidence from RCTs: a Systematic Review Protocol. PROCEED-24-00309. https://doi.org/10.57808/proceed.2025.2
 
Office of Evaluation and Oversight – OVE (2015). Review of the Bank’s support to Agriculture, 2002-2004: Evidence from key thematic areas. Inter-American Development Bank. June 2015. – Co-author-.
 
Office of Evaluation and Oversight – OVE (2015). Country Program Evaluation Bolivia: 2011-2015. Sector Note Agriculture and Natural Resources. October 2015. – Co-author-. 
 
Office of Evaluation and Oversight – OVE (2014). Climate Change and the IDB: Building Resilience and Reducing Emissions. Inter-American Development Bank. October 2014. – Co-author-. 
 
Office of Evaluation and Oversight – OVE (2014). Evaluation of Special Programs Financed by Ordinary Capital. Inter-American Development Bank. December 2014. – Co-author-. 
 
Molina, Adriana. (2011). ¿Overexploitation or conservation? Experimental Evidence on an issue of economic dependence in rural communities. Magazine “Situación Económica”, Fedesarrollo. 
 
Molina, Adriana. (2007). “Caso Ecolsierra, Red de Productores Ecológicos de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta”. Social Enterpreneurships, section 2, Cases: Ecolsierra. DANSOCIAL and IESO School of Management, Los Andes University. Bogotá, 2007. 

LANGUAGES
Spanish (native), English (fluent), Portuguese (intermediate) and French (begginer).