Her research interests concern the ability of multistakeholders collaborations to address socio-economic issues and provide creative and sustainable solutions to problems such as poverty, unemployment, access to vital resources. Her PhD dissertation was about the coevolution of public-private partnerships - as a type of multistakeholders collaboration over infrastructure or public services - with the formal rules of the institutional environment in developing countries where weak institutions prevail. Her current research focuses on the process of crafting public-private partnerships in weak institutional environments where policy making is often challenged by corruption, self-referential decisions and political considerations.