She holds a degree in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires and a PhD in History from Harvard University.
Until 2024, she was an associate professor of International Development at King’s College London and a visiting researcher at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
A specialist in Latin American political economy, her work focuses on the institutions that produce and reproduce inequality, with a particular interest in urban policies, taxation, public space, and the links between local governance and economic structure. Her approach combines historical research with qualitative and quantitative methods, with an applied focus on public policy.
She is the author of the book Vendors’ Capitalism: A Political Economy of Public Markets in Mexico City (Stanford University Press, 2021). Her research has been published in academic journals and by publishers such as Oxford University Press.
