I am an Associate Professor of Politics and Global Affairs at the Getulio Vargas Foundation’s Business and Policy School (EBAPE) in Brazil. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University (2009–2013). In Spring 2026, I will be a Tinker Fellow at the Institute for Latin American Studies (ILAS) at Columbia University in New York City.

I am a member of the Working Group on Reimagining Global Economic Governance (Carnegie’s New Global Order and Institutions program, Washington, D.C.) and the Working Group on Global Challenges to Democracy (Toda Peace Institute, Tokyo).

I have been an Associate Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. (2021–2022), a CAF Visiting Fellow at St. Antony’s College, and a Research Fellow at Nuffield College and the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford (2017–2018).

My research and teaching explore the intersection of politics and economics, focusing on how economic internationalization shapes 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). My current book project examines the Politics of Climate Policies in Brazil.

Before academia, I worked as a business consultant at Accenture, a sell-side financial analyst at BTG Pactual, and a project manager for the Rio de Janeiro state government, overseeing initiatives funded by international financial institutions.