Leilani Jimenez is a senior associate with the Research Department at the Milken Institute. In this role, she supports the department's research portfolio in health economics, regional economics, and international finance. Previously, she supported international programming at Princeton in Africa. Jimenez has an MPP from the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy and earned her Bachelor of Arts in political science and minor in film and media production from Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University.