I received my PhD in Political Science from the Department of Political Science, McGill University, in the Fall of 2023. My fields of study are International Relations and Comparative Politics. More specifically, I am interested in the IPE of trade, GVCs, and FDI, with a particular focus on firms and development. 

My PhD thesis, Trading up for development: the effect of deep trade liberalization on global value chains (GVCs), empirically examines the effect of trade liberalization on developing countries' (and their firms') capacity to participate in global value chains (GVCs). This work was supported by SSHRC Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Doctoral Scholarship (direct application) and McGill University. I am also the winner of the 2022 UNCTAD & the Academy of International Business Award for Best Research on Investment and Development for my work on Deep PTAs and trade in GVCs. 

Currently, I am a Research Fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance. In 2023/2024 year, I was a Research Fellow at the Warwick Business School and worked on supply chain analysis of firms, and FDI & climate. In the summer of 2023, I worked as a consultant with the Division on Investment and Enterprise, UNCTAD, Geneva, on issues related to FDI, climate, energy transition, and development.

Education:

• Ph.D., Political Science (fields: IR and Comparative Politics), McGill University

• M.A. in International  Development, School of International Development and Global Studies (SIDGS), University of Ottawa

• M.A. in International Affairs (cluster: Global Political Economy), Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA), Carleton University

• M.A. and B.A. in International Economics