I am an applied economist working at the intersection of consumer behavior, sustainability, and economic development. Much of my work focuses on developing and applying rigorous methods to evaluate the economic impacts of policies, programs, and business decisions. In terms of methods, I primarily work with modern causal inference tools. I enjoy data-intensive work, including applications involving remote sensing and machine learning, and I try to keep up with advances in empirical methods.

I am currently a Senior Economist at Amazon, in the Returns and Recommerce organization, where I work on optimizing return policies and reducing waste. I am also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AAE) at the University of Georgia (UGA), where I served on the faculty prior to joining Amazon. I continue to advise students and serve on dissertation committees in the fields of development, environmental, and health economics.

Prior to joining Amazon, I was a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC, where my work focused on evaluating the impacts of development policies in lower-income countries. I have also worked as a consultant for the OECD, the World Bank, and the FAO.

I obtained my PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Davis. Before turning to economics, I studied biology and life sciences at the French grande école AgroParisTech (then known as INAPG, now part of Paris-Saclay University).

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