Leilani Jimenez

Leilani Jimenez is a senior research associate on the Milken Institute’s Geo-Economics Initiative, where her research focuses on international capital flows, regional economic development, and technology regulation. She co-authors the Institute’s annual Global Opportunity Index and leads its tech regulation series, which analyzes competition, consumer protection, and AI policy. Before joining the Institute as a research intern, she supported international programming at Princeton in Africa. She holds an MPP from the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy, where she specialized in international relations and national security, and a BA in political science with a minor in film and media production from Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University.