María José leads the Evaluation Direction at SUMMA. She has worked mainly in the field of education policy. She worked for four years at the Centre of Studies at the Ministry of Education of Chile, in the coordination of the Statistics and Cabinet Support Unit, with the main focus on the generation and systematization of evidence for informed decision making at different ministerial levels. Previously, she worked in the research area at the Elige Educar Foundation.

She is a business studies graduate with a major in economics and holds a master’s degree in Public Policy from the Universidad de Chile.