Native from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, I have done my undergraduate studies in Economics at the Brazilian Institute of Capital Markets (IBMEC/RJ) and my Masters at the School of Post Graduate Studies in Economics (EPGE) at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, also in Rio.

My passion for Economics, in particular for Microeconomics, led me to join the PhD program at the University of Chicago in 2001. The past four years have been a growth experience, in part because of the quality of the faculty, in part because of how much they ask of us.

My dissertation discusses the issue of how water should be priced. My research interests, however, go way beyond natural resources economics. I believe that to learn Economics is to learn how to think about the world, to understand how people make decisions. Therefore it can be applied to almost any subject one can think of. It sounds pretty powerful. And I really think it is.