About
Bruno is a first-year Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on political economy and development in Latin America, with work on misinformation and fact-checking, elections and local politics in Mexico, and how former combatants shape democratic politics in Colombia. Bruno's work is published in the Journal of Development Economics, Scientific Data, and Investigación Económica.
Before Michigan, Bruno was Deputy Director for Economic Affairs and Innovation in the North America Unit of the UNDP and the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and a research assistant at ITAM and UC San Diego. Bruno holds an M.A. in Applied Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and a B.A. in Economics from San Diego State University.