Camilo is a PhD student in Public Policy at Duke University. Before joining Duke, he worked as a Research Fellow at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC, for the special group in Mining, Hydrocarbons, and Geothermal Energy. His research focuses on the extraction and local management of natural resources. In his master’s thesis, he studied how the boundary overlaps of natural parks and indigenous reserves in the Colombian Amazon affect deforestation, a work that was awarded as the best master’s thesis by the Environment for Development Initiative. He participated in fieldwork in Guyana, trying to understand the different constraints and attitudes towards mercury-free gold processing technologies. He relies on quantitative tools for his analysis and uses spatial, administrative, and primary data in his research. He worked for the Central Bank of Colombia and the Centro de Estudios sobre Desarrollo Economico (CEDE) at Universidad de los Andes.