Lorena Rivero del Paso

Lorena is an economist with an MSc in Law and Economics from the University of Bologna and the
Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research, India, and L.L.M from University of Hamburg. As an
expert in Public Financial Management, she has worked to improve government performance, open up
government, and combat corruption, from government positions and as an international consultant. As
Director-General of Performance Monitoring in the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit in Mexico, she was in charge of the implementation and monitoring of indicators of the Performance Evaluation
System, supervision of subnational transfers expenditures reporting and the fiscal transparency
policies, as well as capacity building for public officials and general public in those topics. Her
experience also accounts for the design of the architecture for the vertical integration of national
planning to the budget and linking the budget with the Sustainable Development Goals. From the
Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency, she manages technical collaboration and knowledge,
supporting governments and civil society in the implementation of fiscal openness efforts that range
from legal reforms to the implementation of internal and external digital tools and open data.