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You can download my full CV, but here’s a brief overview of my education and professional experience.

Academic Profile

Academic Appointments

  • Aug 2021 – May 2026
    Ph.D. in Business, Accounting
    Rice University Houston, TX
    • Committee: K. Ramesh, Shiva Sivaramakrishnan, Yael Hochberg, Xun Tang
    • Advisor: Dr. K. Ramesh
  • Aug 2021 – Dec 2025
    Master of Arts in Business Administration
    Rice University Houston, TX
  • Sep 2017 – Sep 2018
    Master of Science in Economics and Public Policy
    University of York York, England
    • Graduated with distinction
  • Feb 2011 – Nov 2016
    Bachelor in Economics
    Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas La Libertad, El Salvador
    • Graduated with distinction
  • Feb 2013 – Nov 2016
    Bachelor in Mathematics
    National University of El Salvador San Salvador, El Salvador
    • Completed 40% of coursework

Research

Professional Experience

  • May 2019 – May 2021
    Regional Project Manager for the Informal Economy
    International Labour Organization (ILO) Costa Rica, San José (remotely)
  • Nov 2018 – May 2019
    Research Assistant
    UNICEF Florence, Italy
  • Sep 2018 – Nov 2018
    Internship in the Sustainable Development Department
    International Training Center of the ILO Turin, Italy
  • Aug 2017 – Apr 2019
    Consultant
    International Labour Organization (ILO) Costa Rica, San José (remotely)
  • Feb 2015 – Jul 2017
    Economic and Social Affairs Analyst
    National Association of Private Enterprise (ANEP) and Chamber of Commerce and Industry El Salvador

Presentations

  • London School of Economics (Scheduled for 2027)
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Scheduled for 2026)
  • Harvard University (2026)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2026)
  • Stanford University (2026)
  • University of Chicago (2026)
  • University of Miami (2026)
  • Indiana University (2026)
  • London Business School (2025)
  • INSEAD Business School (2025)
  • National University of Singapore (2025)
  • University of Cyprus (2024)

  • Discussant at the Conference on Field Experiments in Accounting and Economics, Tokyo, Japan (2026)
  • Presentation at the Conference on Accounting & Information Frictions in Microenterprises, Rice University (2025)
  • Presentation at FARS and HARC conferences (2025)
  • Discussant at FARS (2024)
  • Understanding the Informal Economy Forum, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (2024)
  • Global Knowledge Sharing Forum on Informal Economy, Turin, Italy (2019)
  • Global Youth Employment Forum (informal economy), Abuja, Nigeria (2019)

  • Advances with Field Experiments Conference (2025)
  • Conference on Accounting & Information Frictions in Microenterprises (Sep 2025, co-organizer)
  • AAA/Deloitte Foundation/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium (2025)
  • Experimental and Behavioral Economics Summer School, by the European Economic Review (2024)
  • Survey Design & Experimental Methods Workshop, Michigan State University (2024)
  • Lone Star Accounting Conference (2024, 2025)
  • Financial Accounting and Reporting Section, FARS (2023–2025)
  • American Accounting Association, AAA (2023)
  • Machine Learning Boot Camp, Rice University (2023)
  • Machine Learning and Causal Inference, Mixtape Sessions (2023, online)
  • Accounting Theory Summer School, Duke University (2022)
  • Academy on the transition to formal economy, International Labour Organization, Turin, Italy (2018)
  • Course in Quantitative Methods, STATA and Matlab, Alberto Hurtado University, Chile (2017)
  • Diploma in National Employment Policy, International Labour Organization, Turin, Italy (2015)

Honors & Funding