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Dr Işık Özel received her PhD in Political Science at the University of Washington, Seattle. Broadly situated in comparative political economy, her research focuses on the politics of institutional change, its diverse determinants and outcomes mostly in middle-income countries and Southern Europe.

Dr Esteban Nicolini earned his PhD in Economics from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. His research has examined economic growth and convergence between Argentina’s provinces, long-term inequality in Spain, and long-term poverty and inequality in Latin America.

Dr Emiliano Travieso earned his PhD in Economic History from the University of Cambridge (King’s College) with a thesis which won the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize of the Economic History Association. His research focuses on the history of agriculture and its relationship to long-run development, with an emphasis on environment-economy interactions.

Dr Alicia García-Sierra earned her PhD from the University of Oxford (Nuffield College), receiving the European Consortium of Sociological Research Dissertation of the Year Award. Her research examines how family and educational systems influence social mobility. To do so, she employs causally-oriented designs that combine household panel data with genetic information.