Dr. Felipe Valencia Caicedo is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver School of Economics. He completed his BA at Brown University, with master's degrees from Brown University and Yale University, followed by a PhD in economics, finance and management from Spain's Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Between his bachelor's and master's degrees, Dr. Valencia completed a summer analyst internship at Goldman Sachs, receiving the Goldman Sachs Scholarship for Excellence, and following his master's, he was an extended term consultant in the Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean. After his PhD, Dr. Valencia became a tenure track assistant professor at Germany's Bonn University, before joining the University of British Columbia. His research has been featured in Vox and the Washington Post, among others. He referees for over 15 journals, including Econometrica and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and he is a research affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research.