Valeria Rueda is the Rokos Career Development Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford University. She obtained her PhD from Sciences Po Paris. Her research focuses on understanding the long-term determinants of health, social capital, and political development outcomes using a quantitative historical perspective. In particular, she is interested on studying the roles of religion and culture as persistent determinants of development.  She was born and raised in Colombia before moving to France and the UK to obtain her higher education degrees.