I work on political economy and development economics, which often draw me into economic history.  With Juan Camilo Cárdenas and Paula Jaramillo, I lead the initiative Teaching and Researching Equitable Economics from the South, TREES. With Santiago Tobón, I lead EGAP's Latin American Regional Hub. 

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I have been a Maria Zambrano fellow at the Institut d'Economia de Barcelona of Universitat de Barcelona (2022-23), where I am an Associate Researcher, a Maria de Maetzu Fellow (2023) at CEMFI, Visiting Associate Professor of Economics at MIT (2018) where I also taught virtually in 2021, Visiting Scholar (2017) at the Pearson Institute of the University of Chicago, where I was a Faculty Affiliate, and a Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar (2015) at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University,.

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I am an editor of Economia, the Journal of Lacea, associate editor at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, associate a JPAL invited researcher, and a member of EGAP,  HiCN.  With Giorgio Chiovelli, I organized the Virtual Latin American Network in Economic History and Political Economy, LANE HOPE.