Paola Salardi is an Assistant Professor in the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. Her research explores questions related to development, crime and conflict, and gender, and has explored inequality and discrimination in Brazil, violence and school performance in Mexico, violence, education and women’s empowerment in Timor-Leste, and more.

Dr. Salardi is also the Director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Sussex.