I am the Director of the Young Lives study. I joined the Young Lives team in 2015 and since then I have been leading the research team before being recently appointed Director of the study. 

I am a development economist and my research interests include labour economics, education economics and behavioural economics.

I got my PhD in Economics from the University of Essex (UK) and a Masters in Economics from the University of Leuven (Belgium). I am an IZA Research Fellow, and a Researcher Fellow with the Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance since 2018.

Before joining Young Lives, I worked as an economist at the World Bank (Young Professionals Programme) in the Poverty, Inequality and Gender Unit for the Latin America and Caribbean Region and in the Education Unit for the Africa Region. I worked in several research projects, survey designs, impact evaluations and policy dialogue with public and private institutions in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.