I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Essex (on leave) and a Senior Researcher in Data Science at the Bank of England. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor of International Organizations at the School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim. I also worked in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta as a research intern from 2008-2013. My research areas include Comparative Politics & International Relations, Political Institutions, Central Banking, Political Text Analysis, and Computational Social Science

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