I am a professor at the Department of Finance at LSE. My research focuses broadly on corporate governance and organisational economics, from both empirical and theoretical perspectives. I am currently working on topics such as blockchain governance, discrimination in the workplace, and the design of jobs and career structures. I have also written papers on corporate boards, ownership and control structures, organisational design, knowledge and hierarchies, innovation and risk-taking incentives, corporate strategy, personnel economics, group decision-making, markets with adverse selection, and bank governance, amongst others. Please check my research page for more information.

I've been at LSE since 2006, initially in the Managerial Economics and Strategy Group and then in the Department of Finance. My previous positions were at Nova SBE (Lisbon), Stockholm School of Economics, and EPGE-FGV (Rio de Janeiro). I graduated with a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 2002.

After serving as head of the Department of Finance for three years, I am on sabbatical leave during 2023-24.