PODER, a Colombian business magazine, in its July 2008 issue named Elsie Echeverri-Carroll of the IC² Institute one of 50 "cerebros fugados," or leading Colombian academics who have chosen to live and work in the United States. Dr. Echeverri-Carroll is the Director of Economic Development at the IC² Institute’s Bureau of Business Research. She has published extensively on the topics of maquiladoras, trade in the Americas, high technology in industrialized and developing countries, women in business, and income inequalities in high-tech regions.