I am an Ecological Economist, holding three honours degrees and one degree by research and am a member of Pi Sigma Alpha, the United States Political Science honors society.

My work focuses on the political economy of knowledge in environmental governance, with concentrations in the areas of ecological political economy, institutional aspects of ecosystems services valuation, green constitutional theory, legitimacy of environmental policies; the role of science (and scientists) in sustainable development; and the role of time and tradition in processes and principles of ecological economic production.

I am currently an Adjunct Professor with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Development Studies (CIDER for its Spanish name), at the Universidad de los Andes, in Bogotá, Colombia, having worked from 2018-2022 at the Universidad del Rosario and having also recently completed my Habilitation within the Agricultural Economics Department of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where I continue to serve as a member of the Coordination Team for the Berlin Workshop in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems (WINS). I am also an Affiliated Fellow of WINS. In the past I have taught at The New School in New York City, Queen's University of Belfast and served for 7 years as an adjunct Lecturer in Environmental and Ecological Economics at the Central European University, in Budapest. I have worked as a senior research with the Danish National Environmental Research Institute (NERI) at the University of Aarhus and as a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow and Senior Researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany.