Monserrat Bustelo

Inter-American Development Bank, United States Department of Labor

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Monserrat Bustelo is a development economist whose research sits at the critical intersection of gender inequality, labor markets, and technological change in Latin America. She has emerged as a leading voice on how the Fourth Industrial Revolution — encompassing artificial intelligence, robotics, and digitization — threatens to reshape workforce dynamics across the region, with particular attention to its gendered dimensions. Her most influential work, "Automation in Latin America: Are Women at Higher Risk of Losing Their Jobs?", has garnered over 75 citations across its iterations and examines automation vulnerability among female and male workers in countries including Bolivia, Chile, and Colombia. By systematically assessing occupational exposure to automation risk through a gender lens, Bustelo's research provides policymakers with critical evidence about which populations face the greatest economic disruption from technological advancement. Her scholarship challenges assumptions that automation is a gender-neutral process, demonstrating instead that structural inequalities in the labor market can amplify its effects on women. For students and researchers working on inclusive economic development, future of work, or gender policy in emerging economies, Bustelo's contributions offer both rigorous empirical grounding and urgent policy relevance.