About

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I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) at the University of Pennsylvania. I’m also a core member of the Penn Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics and a consultant at Chatham House. In Fall 2021, I was also the Acting Associate Director for PPE.

My research interests lie at the intersection of philosophy, politics, and economics. My work aims to understand the role that informal institutions play in solving collective action problems. I'm particularly interested in the political economy of corruption and the provision of public goods in the Global South.

I have been working with Chatham House (Africa Programme) since 2015. I’m currently co-lead researcher at the Africa Programme’s Social Norms and Accountable Governance (SNAG) project (funded by the MacArthur Foundation). SNAG has produced a number of research outputs since 2021, including numerous workshops, presentations, and publications (see, e.g., our latest on corruption in the education sector or on the relationship between religion and corruption). I also co-authored a public Chatham House report (pictured left) as part of a 2017 project on social norms and corruption (funded by the UK Department for International Development (DfID)). A reader version of the report can be found here, or a downloadable PDF can be found here.

I’ve been invited to present my research all over the world, including the US Department of State in DC, the British High Commission in Abuja, and various Federal Ministries and Government Houses across Nigeria. As part of my qualitative research, I’ve interviewed Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar in Mumbai and Naina Kidwai in Delhi. As a member of the Penn Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics, I’ve been involved as a facilitator in workshops for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (in Seattle), UNICEF (in Philadelphia), Chatham House (in Abuja, Lagos, and Addis Ababa), and Corpovisionarios (in Bogotá).

I previously worked at the US Department of Homeland Security and the Embassy of the Republic of Iraq in Washington, D.C. on issues relating to privacy and security, amongst other things. Some of this work culminated in publications that can be accessed here and here.

I hold a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge.