Hello! I’m an economist working in development, environmental, and agricultural economics. I study how low- and middle-income countries can grow sustainably, with work on environmental regulation, natural resource use, and corruption in resource governance. I also study how social norms and institutions shape behavior, including religion and economic behavior, informal labor, gender discrimination, and memory/recall in decision-making.

I work with three types of methods: (i) applied microeconomics, (ii) macroeconomic modeling of natural resources, and (iii) experimental methods, including RCTs and lab-in-the-field studies. I have conducted fieldwork in South Africa, Kenya, Burundi, and China, with ongoing research projects in Burundi over the past six years.

I am currently a researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Uppsala, Sweden. I hold a PhD in Economics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, a MSc and MRes in Economics from the University College London (UCL), and a BEng in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of São Paulo (USP).

I am also a guest lecturer at the University of Burundi.

I have professional experiences in the private sector (metallurgy and financial markets) in Brazil, in the public sector (Ministry of State Administration) in Guinea-Bissau, as a researcher and teaching assistant (CIES – IHEID) in Switzerland, and as a R&D lead (agriculture) in Burundi (OAF).

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contact: pedro.guimares.naso[at]slu.se and pedrognaso[at]gmail.com