Felipe Valencia Caicedo is Dean's Assistant Professor of Political Economy and Economics at the Department of Economics and the Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Brown University. Prior to that, he worked at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia and the Department of Economics at Bonn University. Felipe obtained his Ph.D. in Economics cum laude from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2015, through the European Doctoral Programme. He worked as a Consultant at the World Bank in Washington, DC, from 2008 to 2010 and an Analyst at Goldman Sachs in 2005. His primary research interests are in Development Economics, Economic History and Political Economy, with an emphasis on Latin America.