Camila Fonseca Sarmiento is the director of fiscal research at the Institute for Urban and Regional Infrastructure Finance (IURIF) at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. At the institute, she is engaged with research related to evaluating the economic impacts of policies, public budgeting, and public finance. Camila is also a research scholar at the Center for Transportation Studies.

Camila has published in Transport Policy, Transportation Research Record, Urban Studies, and Sustainability, and has worked on funded projects supported by the Minnesota Legislature, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Minnesota Local Road Research Board, and The Volcker Alliance.

Camila holds a Master of Public Policy from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and a bachelor's degree in economics and finance from Universidad del Rosario (Colombia). Before joining IURIF, Camila consulted for the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank and worked in her native Colombia in the financial sector.