Sheyla Enciso studies the political economy of public infrastructure provision in systems of decentralised governance. Her research has a substantive emphasis on local politics, state capacity, and territorial inequality, and a regional focus on Latin America. She primarily relies on quantitative research, using causal inference methods on observational data.

 Sheyla holds a Master’s degree in public and economic policy from the LSE School of Public Policy, where she is also a Graduate Teaching Assistant. In the past, she has worked for several international institutions and research centres, including the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Food Policy Research Institute, the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Growth-CoLab Harvard-LSE.