Paolo de Renzio is a DPhil candidate in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, and is affiliated to the Global Economic Governance Programme. His research focuses on the interplay between aid policies and modalities and public finance management systems in developing countries. For the past three years, Paolo worked as a Research Fellow in the Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure at the Overseas Development Institute, after six years spent working as an economist and policy advisor in Papua New Guinea’s Ministry of Finance, and as a UNDP public sector specialist, lecturer and independent consultant in Mozambique. His past research spans from issues related to aid architecture and mutual accountability, to donor conditionalities and general budget support, to assessing the quality of PFM systems and their reform.