Leopoldo Fergusson (PhD, MIT) is Associate Professor at the School of Economics in Universidad de los Andes. He has been a Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar (2015) at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University, Visiting Scholar (2017) at the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts at the University of Chicago and Visiting Associate Professor of Economics at MIT (2018). His research focuses on political economy and development economics.