Short bio
I was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, where I took my first degrees at Universidad de la República. I went on to earn a PhD in Economic History from the University of Cambridge, where I was based at King’s College and the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (Campop). My thesis on long-term rural development in Uruguay won the 2021 Alexander Gerschenkron Prize of the Economic History Association. I am now Associate Professor of Economic History at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and academic director of the Master in Sustainable Development and Global Governance. My research centres on Latin American and global economic history, with a focus on the interactions between agrarian development, institutions, and the natural environment. I have a keen interest in data visualization design, jazz, and cooking. Being Uruguayan I was given every chance to get good at football, but despite many heroic attempts by family, friends, and several coaches, my footballing skills remain limited to videogames.
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