
Prof. Carvalho is an expert on the institutional factors driving economic performance. He has made fundamental contributions to economic modeling of institutions while addressing critical policy challenges, including the political-economic risks of AI, economic integration by cultural minorities, and counter-radicalization.
Previously, he was Associate Professor at the University of California-Irvine in the Department of Economics and the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, which he directed from 2017-2019. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard, Stanford, NYU, and Warwick.
Prof. Carvalho completed his DPhil in Economics at the University of Oxford in 2009, supported by the Commonwealth Bank Foundation.