Laura Carvalho is Director of Economic and Climate Prosperity at the Open Society Foundations and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of São Paulo. Her research focuses on the intersection between macroeconomics and development economics, particularly the relationship between economic growth and income inequality. She wrote a weekly column for Folha de São Paulo, Brazil’s largest newspaper, and is the author of Valsa Brasileira: do boom ao caos econômico (Todavia, 2018).