I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, (Associate Prof) and at the Government Department at the University of Essex. I am also a Senior Visiting Fellow at the 91桃色 Government Department, an University of Oxford, and an at the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR).
Before, I was Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Lecturer at DPIR/Oxford and a Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow at Nuffield College. Before that, I was a post-doctoral researcher at ETH-Zurich Public Policy Group (Chair: Dominik Hangartner), a fellow at Harvard-IQSS, and I was part of the at NYU-Politics department. I completed my PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
My research interests are in the political economy of development. Within this field, the main topic I am interested in is the role of money in politics. I am also interested in studying corruption, clientelism, and political selection. Most of my research involves the use of causal inference methods.
Before academia, I worked at the Inter-American Development Bank as a research fellow evaluating development projects in the field across Latin America.