Short bio
Emiliano Travieso was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he took his first degrees at Universidad de la República. He went on to earn a PhD in Economic History from the University of Cambridge (King’s College) in 2020, with a thesis on long-term rural development in Uruguay which won the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize of the Economic History Association. He is now Assistant Professor of Economic History at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he is co-director of the Master in Sustainable Development and Global Governance. His research centres on Latin American and comparative economic history, with a focus on the interactions between agricultural development, institutions, and the natural environment. He has a keen interest in data visualization design, mid-distance running, and cooking. Being Uruguayan he was given every chance to get good at football, but despite many heroic attempts by family, friends, and several coaches, his footballing skills remain limited to videogames.
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