Biography
Valentina Antonaccio is a DPhil candidate at the School of Geography and the Environment, where she is part of the Institute of New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. She is also affiliated with Society Moving at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna.
She is interested in the interdisciplinary topics of climate change, migration and public policy using approaches that mix econometrics, machine learning and computationally driven analysis.
Valentina holds an MPhil in Economics from the Tinbergen Institute (University of Amsterdam) as well as an MSc in Economics from the Universidad de Montevideo, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Universidad de la República in Uruguay.
Prior to starting her doctoral studies she worked at the Oxford Martin School Future of Development Programme, the World Bank, the Centre of Research on Applied Economics at the Universidad de Montevideo, and as an Operations Researcher in the software and technology sector.