I am a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Center for Political Economy at Columbia University. I received my PhD in Political Science from Columbia University in July 2026.

I study the implementation and enforcement of environmental policy, with a particular focus on Latin America. My dissertation and book project propose that forestry agencies hold their own enforcement capacity, defined as the product of territorial presence and access to monitoring technology. I argue that two interest groups, agribusiness actors and environmental transnational advocacy networks, directly strengthen or undermine the tools bureaucrats rely on. I test this theory in Brazil, Ecuador, and Bolivia where I conducted nine months of fieldwork 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 Center for Political Economy at Columbia University, the Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Development Grant, 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. You can access my CV here. 

I am currently on the job market (job market paper).