He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Before joining KEDGE he worked as an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M International University and the University of Minnesota Duluth, and as an Economic Researcher and Advisor with the Central Bank of Brazil and the International Monetary Fund. His teaching and research interests are in the fields of Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, International Economics, Econometrics, Public Economics, and Law and Economics.