Julia Pomares is currently Chief Advisor of the Government of the city of Buenos Aires. Previously she was the Executive Director of the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies for Equity and Growth (CIPPEC) and co-chair of Think20 during the Argentine presidency to the G20. Her fields of interest are governance reforms and the future of politics. She holds a PhD in Political Science and a Master's in Comparative Politics and Research Methods from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She earned her undergraduate degree in political science from Universidad de Buenos Aires. As a specialist in public policy research and project evaluation, she collaborated with international organizations and think tanks, among them the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, UNICEF and the Organization of American States (OAS).