Iasmin Goes

Iasmin Goes is a researcher in the Department of Public Policy at Central European University in Vienna. Starting in August 2026, she will lead an Austrian Science Fund ESPRIT grant investigating public perceptions of sovereign debt in Europe and Latin America.

She studies how governments in the Global South navigate global economic pressures. Her work asks how commodity prices, capital markets, and international organizations shape domestic politics: how states design fiscal policy, attract foreign investment, produce reliable statistics, elect local representatives, and respond to climate change.

Before moving to Vienna, she was an Assistant Professor at Colorado State University and a Junior Research Fellow at the Carlos III – Juan March Institute in Madrid. She holds a PhD in Government and an MS in Statistics from the University of Texas at Austin, in addition to degrees in Political Science and Latin American Studies from Freie Universität Berlin. She was born in Brazil and named Iasmin (rather than the more traditional Yasmin) because Y was not a letter of the Portuguese alphabet at the time. She likes spicy food, yoga, bikes, swimming, running, and reading fiction (here’s her reading list).