I am an Associate Professor of Politics and Global Affairs at the Getulio Vargas Foundation’s  Business and Policy School (EBAPE) in Brazil, and prior to that I was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics and at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University (2009-13). I am also a member of the Working Group on Reimagining Global Economic Governance, an initiative led by the Carnegie’s New Global Order and Institutions program, with support from the Hewlett Foundation. I served as associate fellow at the Wilson Center, in Washington D.C.(2021-2022), as CAF visiting Fellow at St. Anthony’s College, and as a research fellow at the Nuffield College and the Blavatnik School of International Affairs, at Oxford (2017-2018).  

I teach courses and conduct research on topics at the frontier of politics and economics, with a particular focus on the consequences of economic internationalization to domestic politics in emerging democracies. I am the author of “The Politics of Market Discipline in Latin America” (Cambridge University Press 2015), and co-author of “The Volatility Curse” (Cambridge University Press 2020).

Prior to entering academic life, I worked as a business consultant at Accenture, as a sell-side financial analyst at BTG Pactual, and also for the Rio de Janeiro state government, where I managed projects funded by international financial institutions.