Curriculum Vitae (short)
Current work
2018 - now
Research Fellow, UNU-WIDER (Ministry of Economy and Finance, Mozambique)
2014 - now
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen (on leave of public service)
Former work
2012 - 2014
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
2010 - 2012
Senior Resident Advisor, Ministry of Planning and Development, Directorate of Studies and Policy Analysis, Government of Mozambique
2007 - 2008
Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies
2003 - 2007
ODI Fellow (and then consultant), Ministry of Planning and Finance, Government of Mozambique
2001 - 2002
Research Associate, Opinion Leader Research, London
1998 - 2000
Associate, Emerging Markets Banking Supervision, Financial Services Authority, (formerly Bank of England), London
Education
2012
University of Copenhagen
PhD, Economics
2003
University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies
MSc, Political Economy of Development
1998
University of Cambridge
BA, Social and Political Sciences
Publications
See here.
Recent presentations
2022/02
What drove the profitability of colonial firms? Labour coercion and trade preferences on the
Sena Sugar Estates (1920-1974), UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, brown-bag seminar series
2022/02
Extending Multidimensional Poverty Identification From Additive Weights to Minimal Bundles, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), seminar series (joint with Institute for International Economic Policy, George Washington University and the UNDP Human Development Report Office)
2021/10
Doing business while holding public office: Evidence from Mozambique’s firm registry, University of Cape Town, School of Economics, seminar series
2021/09
Informal freelancers in the time of COVID-19: insights from a digital matching platform in Mozambique, 5th Annual IZA/World Bank/NJD/UNU-WIDER Jobs and Development Conference; and UNU-WIDER annual conference.
2021/08
How biased are measures of intergenerational educational mobility? Practical guidance from a simulation framework, UNU-WIDER seminar, Helsinki (online)
2021/03
Updating great expectations: the effect of peer salary information on future own-earnings beliefs, CSAE Conference 2021, Oxford (online)