Pablo Querubin, PhD

Pablo Querubin is a Professor of Politics and Economics at New York University (NYU). His research focuses on the political economy of development, with an emphasis on understanding the challenges to state-building, and the role of political and economic elites in subverting democracy through the use of violence and clientelism. He has conducted work on internally displaced populations in Colombia and currently works on the causes of child and coerced labor in Brazil as well as strategies to combat these practices. He holds a Ph.D in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2010) and completed his undergraduate and master’s studies at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a member of Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP).