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Gustavo Setrini is currently Academic Coordinator at FLACSO Paraguay. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he specialized in the political economy of development. From 2019-2023 he was Head of Solutions Mapping at the United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) Accelerator Laboratory in Paraguay and from 2013-2019 he was Assistant Professor of Food Studies in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education, Culture and Human Development, where he researched and taught M.A. courses about the political economy of global food systems. He has extensive experience in impact evaluation and the use of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed research methods. He is the child of Paraguayan immigrants in the U.S., and committed to academic research for improving development outcomes in Paraguay and Latin America.