Hometown: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Bio: Natalia Aruj is a Master’s Candidate at the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton with a double major in Political Science and Sociology, where she was nominated for the President’s Award for Undergraduate Excellence and received the Edward H. Prentice Award. During her undergraduate studies, she completed internships at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), where she specialized in organizing the thematic agenda on socio-environmental challenges in Latin America within an academic congress and contributed to policy evaluation and monitoring initiatives, and at the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies for Equity and Growth (CIPPEC), where she worked with the Economic Development Program. At Georgetown, Natalia will pursue a concentration in Governance and New Leaderships. Her academic interests focus on the intersections of natural resource economies, governance, and democratic accountability, with particular attention to how debates on development, sustainability, and regional integration shape socio-environmental dynamics and political leadership in Latin America.

Research Area – Substantive: Natural resource extractivism, governance, economic development, socio-environmental challenges, energy transition, and emerging leaderships in Latin America

Research Area – Geographic: Lithium Triangle (Argentina, Chile, Bolivia)