I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Essex and a Senior Fellow at the Data Science Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previously, I was Assistant Professor of International Organizations at the University of Mannheim (2014-2016) and an adjunct instructor for NYU Stern Business and Political Economy (2021-2022). I have also worked as a Senior Research Data Scientist at the Bank of England (2021-2023) and as a research intern at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2007-2013). My research areas include International and Comparative Political Economy, Political Institutions, Central Banking, Political Text Analysis, and Computational Social Science
My current research interests include topics on central banking, central bank communication, central bank trust; community wealth building especially relating to natural resources and international river treaties; and the political and economic sentiments of the unbanked and under-financed.
My publications include scholarly publications in Comparative Politics Studies, Economics and Politics, Political Science Research and Methods, European Journal of Political Economy and others. I also have a book, published by Oxford University Press called Crafting Consensus. You can find out more about that here
My google scholar page is here