Vice President
Dimensional Fund Advisors
Carmen Palafox joined Dimensional's operations team in 1996 and has been a key contributor to the development of the firm's shareholder transaction processing systems and procedures. She started at the firm as an operations coordinator and spent six years as operations supervisor. In her current role as vice president, Carmen manages the daily workflow of the operations team that is focused outside of the US, including relationships with external vendors and service providers such as transfer agents and custodians. She is also involved in the implementation of operations-related best practices.
Carmen has an M.A. in sports management from the University of San Francisco and a B.A. in economics from the University of Southern California.