Ximena Benavides is an incoming Assistant Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Georgia (effective August 1, 2025). Currently at Yale University, she is a Postdoctoral and Lecturer in Ethics, Politics & Economics at Yale Department of Political Science, where she has been teaching Healthcare Business Ethics since 2022. She is a Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, Affiliated Faculty at the Yale Institute for Global Health, and an affiliated researcher at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy.
Her research lies at the intersection of law, ethics, and political economy, examining incentive structures and the institutional design and governance of information and industrial policies in the life sciences to promote innovation and global equitable access to health technologies. She has been a Fox International Fellow, Olin M. Law, Economics and Policy Fellow, Mercatus Center Fellow in Political Economy, and Democratic Innovation Fellow at the Yale Institution for Social Policy Studies.
Before entering academia, Dr. Benavides practiced international corporate finance law and investment arbitration at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP in New York and CMS Grau, representing Latin American governments, international organizations, and regulated-industry clients. She led the legal offices of Inteligo, the trading and investment bank divisions of Intercorp, and worked with GAVI – The Covax Vaccine Alliance during the global distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines. Dr. Benavides earned her J.S.D. and LL.M. from Yale Law School and her LL.B. and B.A. from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.