I am an Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at Bentley University. My research and teaching focus on how businesses navigate regulatory and political risks amid rising geopolitical tensions. I am particularly interested in a growing feature of national security regulation: governments increasingly rely on private businesses to internalize regulatory compliance, even when effective private governance still depends on public oversight. Why does this arrangement work, and how does it shape firm behavior?

I study these questions through corporate compliance with economic sanctions. My research shows that U.S. sanctions enforcement can deter firms well beyond those directly targeted, slowing cross-border mergers and acquisitions among firms connected by industry or nationality. I also examine what happens when governments delegate compliance to firms, showing how private governance can help direct regulatory scrutiny toward higher-risk firms and make firms’ own compliance behavior more informative about their underlying risk. My ongoing project examines managerial risk perceptions to regulatory enforcement signals.

Outside this main research stream, I examine business–government relations under political and institutional pressures, with projects on employee political activism around skilled immigration amid rising techno-nationalism and transparency in U.S. local government tax incentives.
 
I earned a PhD in Government at the University of Texas at Austin, where I was a graduate fellow at the Innovations for Peace and Development Lab and the Clements Center for National Security. I also hold an MA in International Trade and Investment Policy from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.

Prior to my academic career, I worked at China Policy, a macro-policy consultancy based in Beijing, as the lead macroeconomic analyst. I have also had professional experiences at the European Union Delegation to China, the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, and the World Resource Institute.