Eliane Chantal Karp-Toledo is a Peruvian anthropologist, former First Lady of Peru, and the wife of the ex-president of Peru, Alejandro Toledo. She specializes in the study of Andean indigenous cultures. Family and education Early life Eliane Chantal Karp-Toledo was born on 24 September 1953 in Paris to Jewish parents Eva Rose Fernenburg, from Belgium, and Charles Karp, from Poland, who was persecuted by the Gestapo and later became part of the French resistance during World War II. She completed her baccalaureate at the Lycée Français in Brussels. Education Karp earned her Bachelor of Arts in anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in Latin American studies. She also holds a Master of Arts in anthropology from Stanford University. Karp also completed doctoral studies in anthropology at Stanford. Karp has taken courses on indigenous communities at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and has done graduate work on anthropology and economic development at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Family life At Stanford, she met Alejandro Toledo, whom she married in 1972. Karp first came to Peru in the late 1970s to study its indigenous communities. In 1992 Karp and Toledo divorced and she returned to Israel with their daughter. The couple remarried and returned to Peru before her husband's 1995 campaign. Career In 1980, she began working for international organizations such as OAS, UNICEF and UNDP where she conducted impact measurement studies for development projects on indigenous populations. In 1982 she served at the Agency for International Development (USAID) based in Lima, where she was a consultant until 1987. Since November 1987 she started working at the World Bank in Washington D.C. as a project officer for Latin America and Africa until 1992. Karp also served as an officer for Middle East in European Investment Bank. Karp returned to Israel, and worked at Bank Leumi, where she was in charge of developing relationships with foreign banks. Academic career Karp recently served as an adjunct professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. She is also a former Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar at Stanford University department of Anthropology. Karp was a distinguished fellow in residence at Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and has also been a visiting professor at Salamanca University - Instituto de Iberoamérica. Political contributions During her husband's 2001 presidential bid, Karp contributed to a