I will be a Postdoctoral Fellow at the at the Stanford Center on Global Development and Poverty from June 2019. I will join University of California, San Diego as an Assistant Professor of Economics in July 2020. 

I am currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at  Bocconi University. I graduated from Harvard University in May 2017 with a Ph.D. from the Political Economy and Government program (Economics track). 

I am a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar with the Institutions, Organizations & Growth research program. I am also a Research Associate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).

My research interests are at the intersection of development economics, political economy, and economic history. Many of my on-going projects are in the Democratic Republic of Congo.