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Background
Veronica is a Ph.D. student from Ecuador. She first came to Canada in 2002 as an exchange student to rural Manitoba. After completing her undergraduate degree in Economics, she worked for a year as a manager of information for Nokia-GBS in Quito, Ecuador. Veronica completed her M.A. in Globalization Studies at McMaster University where her studies focused on public policies, commodity markets and labour regimes in Latin America. In 2009-2010, she conducted research at McMaster University on global labour standards and also on international taxation and peer review mechanisms. During the first year of the Ph.D. program, Veronica presented some of her ongoing research at various conferences in North America.
Why she chose the Balsillie School: "The BSIA provides a great opportunity to study global governance while working with exceptional faculty and students in a diversity of projects that go beyond traditional approaches to public policy and international regimes."
Select Publications
- Porter, Tony and Veronica Rubio-Vega. 2011. “Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes,” in Thomas Hale and David Held, eds. Encyclopedia of Transnational Governance Innovation (Cambridge: Polity Press).
Academic/Professional Awards
- 2011 Graduate Student Award of Merit, Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada (SWAAC)
- 2011 Graduate Student Essay Stipend Winner, The Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
- Balsillie Doctoral Fellowship, BSIA
- International Student Scholarship, Wilfrid Laurier University
- Ashbaugh Scholarship, McMaster University
- Don & Glenora Slimmon Scholarship in Peace Studies, Brandon University
- Tommy McLeod and G.F. McDowell Economics Scholarship, Brandon University
