Ricardo Dahis is an assistant professor (senior lecturer) at the Department of Economics at Monash University. His research interests lie at the intersection of Politics, Environment, and Development Economics. It has been published in journals such as the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of Public Economics. He is a recipient of the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (ARC DECRA) for the period 2026-2028.

Ricardo has co-founded Data Basis (Base dos Dados), a nonprofit start-up with the mission to make access to high-quality data universal in Brazil and beyond. We build tools such as a search engine and a public datalake to facilitate data work for academics, journalists, policy makers, companies, and developers.