Summary
Natalia Bueno is a PhD candidate and MA student in Political Science and Development Economics at Yale with 11 years of applied research experience analyzing public finance, government budgets, and policy impacts. She combines rigorous quantitative training—statistics, network analysis, and experimental evaluation—with practical skills in R, Stata, Python, MATLAB, and web development (Ruby on Rails) to manage and analyze large survey and administrative datasets. Her work spans academic and policy institutions including IPEA, the Inter-American Development Bank, and Brazilian research centers, where she has produced budgetary and non-profit finance analyses and network-based studies of political behavior and racial relations. Fluent in Portuguese and English (advanced Spanish, intermediate German), she brings a multilingual perspective to comparative policy research. A detail that sets her apart is her long-standing thread of network-analysis expertise applied to real-world public policy questions, bridging methodological innovation with operational data management.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Program, Exchange Program at University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A., B.A. at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
University of São Paulo
German, Spanish, English