Ximena Pizarro-Bore

Ximena Pizarro-Bore is a PhD student in the Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy, taught between Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University. Her research interests lie in public management policies, civil service, leadership development, telework, and gender policies.

Ximena formerly worked as the Director of the Project and Studies Department at the Center for Public Systems -CSP (Chile). She led a team of five Project Engineers. Managed more than 44 projects and $1,844,000. Worked with 29 different organizations and agencies from the Chilean public sector. Personally involved in 15 projects. Previously, she worked at the Planning and Budget Division of the Ministry of Education, where she supported directly the Director of the Division working to solve challenges faced by one of the sub-units under her control: National Technology Coordination.

She has been granted the Graduate Student Excellence Award for Leadership and Service Award (Georgia Tech, 2022), Public Policy Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year (Georgia Tech, 2021), and Becas Chile – Merit-based Graduate Studies Scholarship – to pursue her Master and Doctorate degree. Her services for the research community include peer reviewing for journals.

Ximena received her M.A. in Public Policy and Management, and her Civil Industrial Engineering degrees from Universidad de Chile.