About Fabiola Bazo
Fabiola Bazo is a research consultant based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Educated in economics at the Catholic University in Lima, Peru, and political science and public policy at Carleton University in Ottawa, she specializes in public policy and gender issues in Latin America. Bazo worked with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation during the hostage crisis in 1997, and was consulted by the Department of Foreign Affairs in Canada during the elections and their aftermath in Peru in 2000. She was Advisor in the Women’s Committee in the Peruvian Congress in 1996 and has worked with international non-govermental organizations in Canada and the United States. In the fall of 2005, Bazo will be a Research Affiliate at the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and will spend January-April 2006 in Peru analyzing and reporting on the general election.