Maria P. Perez Arguelles, is a research associate at the Hobby School of Public Affairs. She is an Economist from Universidad de los Andes, in Bogota, Colombia and earned both, her Ph.D in urban and regional science and M.S. in Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M university. Her research interests include economic and urban policy as well as statistical and spatial methods for community development.

Research Areas
Community and economic development, data analysis and visualization, public policy.