Daniela Campos Ugaz
Phone
404-712-0101
Email daniela.campos@emory.edu
Assistant Director and Director of Graduate Studies, Master's in Development Practice
Daniela Campos supports the program with curriculum development, teaching, and student advising while contributing to program strategy, recruitment, and communications. Drawn to MDP’s focus on applied, interdisciplinary, and equity-oriented development, Daniela brings experience in teaching and research, as well as applied roles with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Bank, as an economic analyst at Peru’s Ministry of Health, and at think tanks in Peru (GRADE and CIUP). Originally from Lima, Peru, she is deeply committed to social justice, inclusion, and supporting students through their academic and professional development.
She holds a PhD and MSc in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Universidad del Pacífico in Peru. Her research sits at the intersection of labor and migration, law and society, economic sociology, global and transnational sociology, development, and comparative political economy. Broadly, she studies labor governance and globalization, focusing on how institutions of work, migration, and welfare are reconfigured in response to global pressures and how these transformations shape inequality across transnational, national, and organizational scales. Her most recent project, The Politics of Skills Shortages: Labor Sourcing in the Transition to the Knowledge Economy in the United States, Germany, and Costa Rica, examines how states source skilled labor during the transition to the knowledge economy, focusing on the relationship between training and migration.
Daniela is coauthor of the book The Dynamics of the Peruvian Labor Market, and her work has also been published in journals such as Socius, International Labour Review, Social Indicators Research, Fordham Law Review, and Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População. Her research has received grants and awards from Social and Economic Rights Associates (SERA) – Law and Society Association (LSA), the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies, the Center for German and European Studies, the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program at UW–Madison, and the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, among others.
Daniela is committed to translating research into policy-relevant insights. She has presented her work to policymakers, including the Vice-Ministers of Promotion of Employment and Tourism in Peru, and has been invited to participate in ILO roundtables on labor markets in Latin America. She intends to continue building international collaborations that connect academic research with public debate and policymaking.
In her free time, Daniela enjoys watching films, reading fiction, swimming, and spending as much time as possible near the sea.