I work on political economy and development economics, which often draw me into economic history.  I direct CEDE, the research center of the Department of Economics at Universidad de los Andes.

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

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I am an editor of Economia, the Journal of Lacea, 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.