Dr. Amparo Elena Gordillo-Tobar is a Senior Health Economist with over 15 years of experience as a Project Task Team Leader at the World Bank where she has prepared, managed, supervised and led innovative health financing investment Bank projects. Currently, Dr Gordillo-Tobar is the Senior Portfolio Manager for the Pandemic Fund, hosted by the World Bank, where she oversees the advances on implementation of the Pandemic Fund Projects.
Prior to her work at the World Bank, Dr. Gordillo-Tobar was a Health Economist at the Pan American Health Organization, Project Manager for Unicef Projects, Health researcher at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the Central University of Ecuador and a health officer at the Ministry of Health of Ecuador. Dr. Gordillo-Tobar holds a Doctoral Degree in Medicine from the National School of Medicine in Ecuador and a PhD and Master’s degree from Tulane University in New Orleans.