Research meets social innovation
I re-purpose technologies for social good
Research meets social innovation
I re-purpose technologies for social good
I re-purpose technologies for social good
I re-purpose technologies for social good
I am an Assistant Professor of Economics of Child Well-being and Development at the University of Zurich, and Chairman at CCWD.
My research is primarily about why, in developing countries, parents often fail to invest in (and sometimes even destroy) children's human capital.
"Behavioral Insights for Policy Design – A New Framework for Understanding Wicked Social Problems and Designing Policies for Real Citizens", with Bruno Rizardi and Amiris de Paula, has been commissioned by Springer (target publication date: Q4/2022)
I am a co-founder and chairman at Movva, which powers nudgebots to improve learning outcomes among low-income students
across Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa.
I hold a PhD in Political Economy and Government
from Harvard University.
I have been acknowledged by the Schwab Foundation and Folha de São Paulo as Brazil's top-10 social entrepreneur of the year (post-COVID legacy), in 2020, and by MIT Technology Review as Brazil's top social innovator among under-35 entrepreneurs, in 2014.
I am also a social innovation specialist at the World Economic Forum
Expert Network.
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