Associate Professor of Economics at the São Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV EAESP) and Director of Research of the Institute for Health Policy Studies (Instituto de Estudos para Políticas de Saúde – IEPS). Member of the NIHR Global Health Research Academy, president of the Scientific Advisory Board of Instituto Escolhas, member of the Scientific Committee of Núcleo Ciência pela Infância (NCPI), CNPq Productivity Fellow 1D, research associate at the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC/Essex), and associate editor of the Journal of Health Economics. Awarded the Haralambos Simeonidis Prize (30th Edition, 2012), the Newton Advanced Fellowship by the British Academy (2016-2019), the GCE Brazil Grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2018-2020) and international awards from ESRC, NIHR and CAF. Tenured assistant professor at IE-UFRJ (2012-2018), appointed vice-president of the Brazilian Econometric Society (2014-2016) and chapter head of the LACEA/IADB/World Bank/UNDP Research Network on Inequality and Poverty (NIP, 2004-2008). BA (summa cum laude) and MSc in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). PhD in Economics from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).