I am a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Columbia University. I study the political economy of deforestation and conservation in Latin America. My dissertation, Beyond the Trees: The Politics of Deforestation Enforcement, delves into the process of deforestation enforcement in Amazonian countries. I develop an interest group theory of enforcement where agribusiness actors and transnational environmental advocacy networks both shape the enforcement capacity of forestry agencies. I test my theory in Bolivia, Brazil, and Ecuador combining in depth fieldwork and spatial data.

During the 2024-2025 academic year, supported by a Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Development Grant, I conducted nine months of fieldwork across Brazil, Ecuador, and Bolivia, with affiliations at the Center for Sustainable Development (CDS) at the Universidade de Brasília and at the Political Science Department at FLACSO. 

My research has been supported by the Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Development Grant, the Center for Political Economy at Columbia University, the Dracopoulos Family Foundation, and the Institute for Latin American Studies at Columbia University. My work is published at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  I am from Paris and completed my undergraduate studies in Political Science at UC San Diego, minoring in Art History and Human Rights.

You can contact me at: eb3346@columbia.edu