Christian joined the Center for International Development's Growth Lab as a Visiting Fellow in September 2019, and re-joined as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2022 after completing his Ph.D. in Economics of Innovation at the University of Bordeaux (France). His fields of interest cover economic complexity, economics of innovation and high-skilled migration. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics from the Universidad del Valle (Colombia) and a Master’s degree in economics of innovation from the University of Bordeaux. Before joining the CID, he has been both an intern and a contractor at the Economics and Statistics division of the World Intellectual Property Organization (Switzerland). 

Current Research/Projects

• High-skilled migration and knowledge diffusion
• Ethnic-cultural proximity and teamwork formation
• Migration, complexity, and regional inequality

Areas of Expertise

• Economics of Innovation
• Knowledge Diffusion
• High-skilled Migration
• Economics of patents