Mercedes is the CEO & Co-founder, Quipu. Mercedes studied Political Science at the University of Buenos Aires and worked at CIPPEC supporting local governments in Latin America and at TECHO in the micro-finance program. She then completed a master’s degree in Cities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on a Fulbright scholarship. At MIT, she founded Quipu after going through the MIT DesignX incubator. Mercedes is a Fellow of the Cartier Women’s Initiative 2024, The Global Good Fund, and the Tallberg Foundation. She is also a research affiliate at the MIT Community Innovators Lab.
