I am a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at University College London (UCL). My work is situated within Comparative Politics and International Relations (IR), with a focus on international and comparative political economy. I study how ideas shape international (and domestic) economic relations, and how political elites articulate competing visions of the economy during periods of uncertainty. I am also widely interested in qualitative, historical work in IPE. 

My dissertation examines how anti-colonial nationalist ideas shaped post-independence decisions about the adoption of nationalization as an economic strategy. I account for why some governments undertook sweeping nationalizations, others opted for selective or sectoral approaches, and others chose not to nationalize. Methodologically, I use comparative historical analysis and process tracing of archival and secondary sources across three paired comparisons: Algeria/Tunisia, Indonesia/Malaysia, and Tanzania/Kenya to systematically test my argument.