I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Affairs at Columbia University. I am also a member of the Working Group on Global (Dis)Order, a joint initiative of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the British Academy; the Toda Peace Institute’s Working Group on Global Challenges to Democracy; and a Research Associate at the Laboratory of Geopolitical Studies of the Legal Amazon (LEGAL).

Previously, I was the Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professor at Columbia University’s Institute of Latin American Studies; an Associate Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. (2021–2022); and a CAF Visiting Fellow at St Antony’s College and Research Fellow at Nuffield College and the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford (2017–2018). I also served as an Assistant Professor in Princeton University’s Department of Politics and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (2009–2013) and as an Associate Professor of Politics at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (2013–2026).

My research and teaching lie at the intersection of politics and economics, with a particular focus on how global economic integration 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 policy in Brazil. Before entering academia, I worked as a business consultant at Accenture, a sell-side financial analyst at BTG Pactual, and a project manager for the state government of Rio de Janeiro, overseeing initiatives financed by international financial institutions.

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