About me

I am a PhD Candidate in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis, with research interests in development and public economics. In August 2025, I will join the Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action at the University of Edinburgh as a postdoctoral researcher.

My work focuses on social protection, mental health, resilience to climate shocks, and risk and insurance in developing countries. I am currently affiliated with the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk, and Resilience (MRR) at UC Davis and have worked as a consultant for the World Bank. I have conducted fieldwork in my home country of Paraguay.

Before entering my doctoral program, I graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Economics-Mathematics and a Concentration in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. I have worked in Asunción as a Policy Analyst at the Secretariat of Planning for Economic and Social Development and as a Research Associate at Instituto Desarrollo. I am also a long-time collaborator of OMAPA, the Paraguayan mathematical olympiads organization.