Belén Fernández Milmanda holds a PhD in Political Science from Harvard University. She is interested in comparative politics and political economy with a focus on Latin America. Her book manuscript, Agrarian Elites and Democracy in Latin America, explains how landowners organize to influence policy-making in contemporary Latin America. She also studies the political determinants of forest protection in the Argentine Chaco Forest. She holds a MA in Political Science from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina and a BA in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires. Her work has appeared in World Development, Politics and Society, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia on Latin American Politics.