Sirenia Vázquez is a Principal Economist at BBVA Research, currently in the Spain Unit. She is a policy-oriented applied economist whose research uses large-scale microdata, advanced analytics and Big Data to study financial inclusion, immigration, demographic change, labor markets, firm behavior, credit dynamics, sustainability and artificial intelligence, with a focus on evidence-based public and financial policy.

She joined BBVA Research in 2013 in Mexico and moved to Madrid in 2019. Before joining BBVA, she was Director of Economic Studies at Mexico’s National Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV) and held research roles in development banking, financial markets and social policy.

She holds a degree in Economics from CIDE, a Master’s degree in Risk Management from ITAM, and is a Certified Data Scientist from the University of Navarra.