Fernanda Conforto de Oliveira is a PhD candidate in the Department of History and Politics at the Geneva Graduate Institute and, currently, a Visiting Student Research Collaborator in the Department of History at Princeton University.

Her dissertation titled ‘Opening the Black Box of Financial Negotiations: the IMF, Argentina, and Brazil in the Post-war Era (1945-1964)’, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, examines the first adjustment programs of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Argentina and Brazil. Combining automated and qualitative text analysis, it investigates international financial negotiations and the process of economic policy making within the IMF and nation-states to understand why Argentinian and Brazilian authorities followed different paths when negotiating with the Fund.

Fernanda is interested in questions related to sovereign debt, creditor-debtor relations, and financial globalization, as well as the application of computational methods within historical research, particularly machine learning, and natural language processing.