Gonzalo Pons is the Director of IPA's Climate & Environment Program (CEP). Before joining IPA-CEP, he worked at the World Bank on environmental policy, climate change, social sustainability in climate action, behavioral sciences, and impact evaluations. Earlier in his career, Gonzalo worked as a Research Associate at the IPA Peru Office. There, he led a randomized controlled trial of a socio-emotional learning program for at-risk schools, conducted a "mystery shopping" study for financial products, and supported the early initiatives of MineduLab, a policy experimentation unit at the Ministry of Education. Gonzalo holds an MPP from the University of Chicago Harris School and a BA in Social Psychology from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP).