I am a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Columbia University. In Fall 2026, I will be a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Center for Political Economy at Columbia University. 

I study the political economy of deforestation and conservation in Latin America. My dissertation delves into the capacity of deforestation enforcement agencies in Amazonian countries. It seeks to explain when and how agencies get captured focusing on the interaction between politicians, bureaucrats, and interest groups. I test this theory in Brazil, Ecuador, and Bolivia. During the 2024-2025 academic year, I conducted nine months of fieldwork across all three cases 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.