Martha Denisse Pierola is a Senior Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). She has published several papers on export growth, superstars and exporter dynamics and co-created the Exporter Dynamics Database–the first-ever global database on exporter growth and dynamics, based on firm-level export data. Her current research studies the role of trade liberalization on exporter dynamics in Latin America; and the impact of migration on labor outcomes in Peru. 

She has worked on issues related to regionalism, trade costs and trade and productivity. Before joining the IDB, she worked as an economist for the World Bank, the Peruvian Government (INDECOPI) and also consulted for the private sector and other international organizations. She has a PhD in economics from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland and a Master of International Law and Economics from the World Trade Institute in Bern, Switzerland.