Dr. Sebastian Tello-Trillo is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy  at the University of Virginia.  His fields of specialization are Health Economics and Applied Microeconomics and he has interests in the areas of health policy in the U.S. and Latin America. Sebastian was born and raised in Lima, Peru. After coming to the U.S he received a B.S. in Pure Mathematics and Economics from Florida State University, where he wrote an honors thesis on parents’ decisions of signing up their children to SCHIP. Furthermore, Sebastian was a participant of the AEA summer training program at UC Santa Barbara in 2008 and 2010. Prior to his studies at Vanderbilt he was a project associate for Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA). During his time in IPA, he worked under Prof. Mushfiq Mobarak, from Yale School of Management on projects of seasonal migration in Bangladesh and stove marketing in Bangladesh. Asides from Economics and Mathematics, Sebastian enjoy photography, filming, video-editing, writing letters, interviewing, board games, and playing harmonica among other things.