I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow and Senior Research Associate at the Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab at Johns Hopkins University, where my work focuses on the possibilities and limits of green industrial policy in Latin America, particularly in Brazil and Mexico. Over the past two Fall semesters, I have also served as a Lecturer at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies. 

I hold a PhD in Political Science from Central European University, where my research examined the political economy of development and industrial policy in Latin American democracies. My work addresses the political conditions under which industrial policies and development strategies are enabled or constrained in middle-income democracies, with particular attention to how governments broker what I conceptualize as developmental alliances: coalitions of state actors, firms, and social groups that sustain specific development strategies over time. During my doctoral training, I conducted fieldwork in Brazil and Chile and held visiting research positions at King’s College London and at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago. 

More recently, my research has focused on the political economy of the green transition in Latin America. Over the past year, I have been producing both academic and policy-oriented work on technological choices and value chain configurations, examining how decarbonization reshapes industrial strategies and the coalitional dynamics that support them. This work extends my earlier research by analyzing how processes of technological change associated with the green transition reconfigure developmental alliances, creating new political opportunities and constraints for industrial policy. 

Part of my work has been published at Third World Quarterly, Regulation and Governance, and Development and Change.