Fernanda Conforto de Oliveira

Fernanda Conforto de Oliveira is a PhD candidate in International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Finance and Development. Her research focuses on the IMF's early adjustment programs in Argentina and Brazil (1945-1964), examining financial globalization and policymaking through computational methods like NLP. She is currently a Visiting Student Research Collaborator in the Department of History at Princeton University under Professor Harold James.

• PhD in International History and Politics (Graduate Institute in Geneva, expected 2024)
• MA in International Relations (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
• BA in International Relations (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

Her work combines historical analysis with sentiment analysis and topic modeling to decode creditor-debtor dynamics. She has published on US-IMF-Brazil relations and reviewed literature on welfare states in the Americas. Her awards span SNSF, TSA, LASA, and Truman Library Institute grants.

• Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship (2020-2021)
• SNSF Doc.CH Scholarship (2021-2024)
• Chandler Travel Grant (2024)

Fernanda collaborates with LabMundi at the University of São Paulo and utilizes machine learning (BERT, GPT models) to analyze historical texts. Her research contributes to understanding IMF-Latin America interactions beyond traditional panel analysis.