At the Blavatnik School of Government, I supervise DPhil (PhD) students and teach on various graduate courses. Since 2018 I have lectured on (and occasionally convened) the Politics of Policymaking core course for all Masters in Public Policy (MPP) students in the department. My lectures have covered:
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State constitutional architectures, veto player analysis;
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Social and political cleavages, parties, ethnic and gender representation, and elections;
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Bureaucracy, corruption, and institutional turnarounds;
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Social movements and interest groups.
For several years I have also run a course called Policy Challenge 2, which is an intensive, real-time policy-design course, focused on contemporary issues that have included climate negotiations, internet security, rapid responses to COVID-19 and the COVAX facility negotiations. The course often brings together some of the world's pre-eminent, frontline decision-makers for short advice and Q&A sessions. For example, here's me putting student questions to Dr David Nabarro, WHO special envoy on COVID-19.
I am also involved in some of the Blavatnik School's executive education programmes, such as the Chandler Sessions on integrity and corruption. Within the Lemann Foundation Programme, I convene various workshops for senior-level practitioners.
Before joining the Blavatnik School full time, I taught statistics in the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University, and gave tutorials on Brazilian politics.
In 2021, I received a Teaching Excellence Award (Early Career Stream) from Oxford University’s Social Sciences Division.