Laura Carvalho

About

Economics professor at the University of São Paulo who is also the director of the Research Center on Macroeconomics of Inequalities. She is popular on twitter for her advocacy and education on how economic policies impact inequality. On the platform she has 200,000 followers. 

Before Fame

She studied and earned her PhD at The New School, where she is also a fellow in an economic policy think tank called SCEPA.

Trivia

In 2020, she published an article called "Multi-Dimensional Inequality and COVID-19 in Brazil" in the Investigación Económica journal.

Family Life

She is in a relationship with Renan Quinalha, a professor at the Federal University of São Paulo.

Associated With

She can be associated with fellow human welfare champion and economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.