Isabel Guerrero, a Chilean national, trained as an economist at Catholic University of Peru and did her post-graduate at the London School of Economics. She has worked in the World bank since 1982 when she joined as a Young Professional.

She has worked in all regions of the Bank, spending several years working on the Philippines and Morocco. After the soviet union collapsed she joined the team that started the bank work on Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan as Principal Country Economist. Ms. Guerrero was promoted to Chief of the Macroeconomic Management and Policy Division of the Economic Development Institute in January 1995. Ms. Guerrero was Director for Bolivia, Paraguay, Ecuador and Peru from 1997 to 2002 and started working as Director for Colombia and Mexico as of December 16, 2002. Ms. Guerrero has also trained as a psychoanalyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute and has a degree from Instituto Psicológico Peruano.