Nico is a former Researcher at Founders Pledge. Previously, he was a predoctoral research fellow in Economics at Harvard University, where he focussed on the determinants of economic mobility. He has co-authored research on social capital using data on 21 billion friendships from Facebook that has appeared in Nature. Before doing research, he worked on various consulting and public policy projects in Germany, the UAE, and South America. He received his MA in Economics from Brown University in 2023 and his BA in Economics from NYU Abu Dhabi in 2019.