Her area of focus is the international political economy of development, but her interests run a wide gamut. She has published on a variety of subjects including intellectual property rights, innovation systems, the regulation of medicine, Brazilian politics, and international trade negotiations. She has worked with local Brazilian and Chilean NGOs, as well as international organizations including the World Bank and the United Nations' Economic Commission on Latin America. She received a BA in political science from Stanford and a PhD and MPhil from the University of Cambridge. She has been awarded grants from the Truman, Fulbright, and Gates foundations. She currently leads a three-year FONDECYT (Chilean national research agency) grant on innovation systems in Latin America.