Dr. Elsie Echeverri-Carroll has published extensively on the topics of maquiladoras, trade in the Americas, high technology in industrialized and developing countries, women in business, and income inequalities in high-tech regions. She has taught international trade policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and manufacturing strategy in the global economy in the MBA Program at the McCombs School of Business, both at The University of Texas at Austin. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from The University of Texas at Austin and a master's degree in Regional and Urban Planning from the University of Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, and the Netherlands Institute of Social Studies. She has served on several faculty committees at the Institute of Latin American Studies and the McCombs School of Business.