About

I am an Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics, where I teach and research Global Governance and International Political Economy.

My research examines how large-scale organisations can be aligned with their mandates when they rely on diverse individual agents to act on their behalf. I study when differences in individuals’ expertise, backgrounds, and incentives shape organisational effectiveness and distributional outcomes, with a particular focus on international financial institutions and global development. I am increasingly interested in how this broader problem of organisational alignment extends to the governance of existential risks, including pandemics and artificial intelligence.

Methodologically, I use quantitative approaches centred on individuals, combining biographical data with survey and field experiments to study how individual agents exercise authority and shape organisational decision-making.

I teach IR355/IR489, Economic Diplomacy, which puts many of these questions into practice. Through real-world cases, students examine how decision-makers political and economic trade-offs in areas ranging from trade and sovereign debt to economic coercion and weaponized interdependence. My teaching emphasises problem-based learning, using theory and evidence to understand—and make—the choices faced by practitioners.

My work has appeared in American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, International Organization, and World Politics.