I am currently an independent researcher and consultant. Previously, I was Lecturer in Peace and Development Studies at the University of Bradford (UK) and a researcher at SOAS - University of London. I completed my PhD at the University of Sussex in 2019 with the thesis "The political economy of land and dispossession in Colombia". In earlier years, I worked at the Universidad de Caldas and the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales in Colombia and the Guerrand-Hermés Foundation for Peace in the UK.

I am interested in the political economy of land globally, but my expertise is on Colombia, where I lived between 2008 and 2020. My research has covered issues such as: legal and illegal forms of land dispossession, expropriation policy/law and practice, social conflicts surrounding oil and mining projects, dispossession and related displacement in conflict contexts, land restitution, land politics in peace processes, the history of agrarian reform, the history of land dispossession, the links between illicit crop cultivation and land tenure (in)formality/titling and formalisation programs, and community-level land tenure institutions.