Therese Danley

Therese was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for International Development Growth Lab from fall 2019 through spring 2020. Her research focused on empirical analyses of human capital, labor mobility, and career paths, with an emphasis on how labor market opportunities vary across different urban and regional contexts. She was a PhD student at the Department of Geography at Umeå University in Sweden.

Jorge F. Tudela Pye

Jorge Tudela Pye is currently a Young Professional at the World Bank Jobs Group, working on macroeconomics and structural transformation. Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked at the IFC’s Macro & Markets Research unit and was part of the Center for International Development’s Growth Lab as a Research Fellow from 2019 to 2021.  
 
In Peru, he worked as a Senior Equity Research Analyst at Credicorp Capital, a Latin American Investment Bank, at the Ministerial Office of the Minister of Production (Industry) of Peru, focusing on Productive Diversification, and as a Fiscal Economist in the Ministry of Economics and Finance of Peru. He spent a summer with the World Bank’s Macro-Fiscal (MTI) team in Abuja, Nigeria, and developing the Trade Adjustment Program for the Government of Sri Lanka in Colombo with the Growth Lab.

Jorge holds a master’s in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
 
His research interests include Macroeconomics, Public Finances, Trade, Economic Complexity and Growth Diagnostics. 

Rushabh Sanghvi

Rushabh Sanghvi joined the Growth Lab as a Research Assistant in August 2019. He graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University in 2018, with a Bachelor’s degree in Quantitative Economics and a minor in Entrepreneurial Leadership. As an undergrad, Rushabh was the President of the Tufts Association of South Asians, and helped organize the London India Forum during his study-abroad program at the London School of Economics.

Prior to joining the Growth Lab, Rushabh worked in a strategy consulting role at IQVIA, where he analyzed healthcare data to consult pharmaceutical and biotech clients on market access, policy risk, and patient affordability programs. As a summer intern at Booz Allen Hamilton, he worked on a darknet monitoring project to evaluate the impact of illicit drug sales through cryptomarkets on the opioid crisis. With a strong interest in working at the intersection data, economics, and strategy, Rushabh is passionate about exploring private-public collaborative solutions to development issues. In his free time, he enjoys travelling, hiking, debate, and bingeing on TV shows.

Jessie Lu

Jessie Lu started at the Center for International Development’s Growth Lab as a Research Assistant in August 2019. Prior to joining the Growth Lab, she worked as a Research Assistant in Global Health Policy at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC, where she worked on a diverse set of projects ranging from capacity building in sub-Saharan Africa to the path to universal healthcare to analyzing multilateral bank replenishments.

She has also served as a Strategy & Knowledge consultant for the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development, focusing on global development finance research. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology with a concentration in Medical Anthropology and Global Health from the University of Pennsylvania.

Michael Lopesciolo

Michael Lopesciolo joined the Center for International Development’s Growth Lab as a Research Fellow in 2019.

Prior to joining CID, he worked as a Senior Research Associate at Eaton Vance, a Boston-based asset management firm, covering Latin American economics and politics for the global macro group. He also worked as a Project Associate at Centennial Group International, a boutique policy consulting firm, and spent the past summer analyzing investment options in public-private partnerships and social lending at Argentina’s national pension fund.

Michael holds a B.S. in International Political Economy from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID, 2019) from the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst. His research interests include taxation, fiscal policy, and infrastructure finance.

Patricio Goldstein

Patricio joined the Center for International Development’s Growth Lab in 2019. He has worked in Applied Research projects in Albania, Ethiopia, Honduras, Jordan and South Africa. He became an affiliated associate in 2022.

Prior to joining CID, he worked as an advisor in the office of the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers for the Government of Argentina. He also worked as an economic analyst for the Center for Financial Research at Universidad Torcuato di Tella.

Patricio holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Universidad de Buenos aires, an M.A. in Applied Economics from Universidad Torcuato di Tella, and a Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID, 2019) from the Harvard Kennedy School.

His research interests focus on trade policy, infrastructure and private sector development.

Eric Protzer

Eric joined Harvard’s Growth Lab as a Research Fellow in 2019.

Prior to joining, he worked on an Innovations for Poverty Action randomized control trial concerning Ghanaian labor markets, researched energy and technological change in the developing world at MIT, taught in Vanuatu, and helped build two tech startups. Eric holds undergraduate degrees from The University of British Columbia in Economics and Mechanical Engineering and a master’s degree from MIT in Technology and Policy.

His research interests include the application of data science techniques to policy problems and the impact of technology on the economy.

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Camila Porto

Camila Porto recently graduated from the Master in Applied Economics at Northeastern University, with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay. She was awarded the Fulbright scholarship to study in the United States and currently she is doing her post-academic training in the Growth Lab at Harvard Kennedy School. During her Masters, she worked with Prof. Bilge Erten and Prof. Catalina Herrera as a research assistant in topics related to Gender and International Development like internal migration in West Africa and time allocation and water resources in India. Back in Uruguay, she worked at CIEDUR an NGO focused on Interdisciplinary Development Investigations in the area of gender and labor market.

João Alcántara

João Alcántara is a second-year Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) student at Harvard Kennedy School, where he is a Lemann Scholar. He holds a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Brazil.

Before coming to Harvard, João worked as a data scientist for one of Latin America’s largest financial institutions, where he used machine learning to solve retail and investment banking business problems. He also has public sector consulting experience, having worked with the governments of Brazil, Estonia and México in projects ranging from science and technology promotion to government digitalization to private sector development. His interests are focused on the impact of machine learning on economics and public policy, government digital transformation, political economics and public economics.

Ermal Frasheri

Ermal Frasheri joined the Center for International Development’s Growth Lab as a Research Fellow in 2014.

Ermal finished his doctoral studies, S.J.D, at Harvard Law School, where he worked in the areas of law and economic development, international law, European integration, and social and political theories. He has written papers on legal reform and comparative law, European Union, financial services, international law, and his dissertation examined the relationship between regional integration in the context of European integration and development strategies.

Ermal has taught at Harvard in various roles since 2006 in the fields of political and social theories, European integration and EU law, democracy, international institutions, and sociology. He was awarded a teaching excellence award by Harvard, and was appointed a Byse Fellow at Harvard Law School (fall 207) where he taught a series of workshops on Law and Development. He has also taught International Law at Babson College, and European Union law at New England Law – Boston. Currently, Ermal teaches courses on Law and Corruption, and International Law and Migration at the Sturm College of Law, University of Denver.