Valeria Villafuerte is a Senior Policy Associate at IPA Peru. She supports the development of a qualitative study that explores MineduLAB's challenges and opportunities to scale up its innovations. Additionally, she provides policy and qualitative research advisory guidance to other projects in the office. Before joining IPA, she conducted educational policy evaluations for the Ministry of Education of Peru. Valeria holds a Master's degree in Public and Social Policy from the UPF Barcelona School of Management and Johns Hopkins University, and a BSc in Anthropology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.