I am currently a visiting assistant professor at Georgetown University, where I teach classes in international relations, international political economy, and climate and energy politics at both the undergraduate and graduate level. I was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Leiden University, where I contributed to a European Research Council-funded project on sovereign debt. Before that, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Inter-American Policy and the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University. I hold a Ph. D. in Politics from Princeton University and a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Stanford University. Before receiving my Ph.D., I was a researcher at Stanford’s Center for Energy and Sustainable Development.
My research lies at the nexus of comparative and international political economy with a regional focus on Latin America. My dissertation, entitled “Multinational Investment and Domestic Policymaking in Latin America,” was chaired by Helen Milner, with other committee members including Deborah Yashar, Faisal Ahmed, and Daniela Campello. My research agenda focuses on how foreign direct investment (FDI) and investment incentives, international currency flows, resource rents, portfolio investment, and sovereign debt influence distributional conflicts in developing democracies. In particular, I aim to explain how international financial flows intensify demands for representation, regulation, and redistribution. To do so, I utilize a multi-method research approach, including machine learning and Bayesian analysis, qualitative approaches such as process tracing and case studies, game-theoretic modeling, and original surveys of public preferences utilizing advanced survey methods such as conjoint experiments. I am also completing a book manuscript, “Investing in Influence: Multinational Firms and Political Power in Developing Economies”, that analyzes how multinational corporations form coalitions which advocate for liberalizing reforms or lobby to maintain preferential regulations and market barriers. My research is published or invited to revise and resubmit in leading academic journals, such as The Review of International Political Economy, International Studies Quarterly, The Review of International Organizations, New Political Economy, and The European Journal of Political Research.
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