Alicia Duran
Senior Vice President
aduran@emta.org
As Senior Vice President of EMTA, Alicia works on events, member relations, marketing, and communications.
Alicia was Director of Emerging Markets Fixed Income Research at Merrill Lynch, specializing in Latin American sovereign debt, in the 1990s and early 2000s, having started her career in emerging markets research at Salomon Brothers. Prior to this, she was a Latin American research analyst at The Century Foundation and a credentials analyst at The Knowledge Company, an immigration law consulting firm in the Washington, D.C. area.
Before joining EMTA, Alicia worked in the publishing industry, serving as Director of Finance and Contracts Manager at Blue Apple Books and Copy Editor at The Critical Reader.
Alicia received a Master’s in Policy Analysis and Management with a focus on Latin America from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in 1994. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College, summa cum laude, with a B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature in 1990.