Teaching

Teaching Statement (PDF)

King’s College London

  • 5QQMN938 — Intermediate Econometrics (Tutorial Leader, undergraduate) — 2026–present

University of Notre Dame

  • ECON 43810 — Explaining an Unequal World: Empirical Methods in Development (undergraduate) — 9 semesters
  • ECON 70562 — Advanced Topics in Economic Development (Ph.D.) — 2 semesters
  • ECON 30331 — Econometrics (undergraduate) — 2 semesters
  • ECON 70572 — Microeconomic Development II: Market Failures (Ph.D.) — 1 semester
  • ECON 33811 — Introduction to Development Economics (undergraduate) — 1 semester

Harvard University

  • Rethinking Financial Inclusion: Smart Design for Policy and Practice (Executive Education, Teaching Fellow) — 1 week
  • Economics 1393 — Poverty and Development (undergraduate, Teaching Fellow) — 1 semester

Advising

Fernando has supervised six undergraduate honors theses at Notre Dame, including two BonAnno Thesis Prize winners (Daniel Martin, ND ’16; James Mancini, ND ’23) and one honorable mention (Alison Lodermeier, ND ’17, now at the University of Chicago). His Ph.D. advisees include Paul Shaloka (ND ’23, now at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) and Linh Nguyen (ND ’20, now at Bates College). Former research assistants and pre-doctoral fellows have gone on to economics Ph.D. programs at the University of Michigan and Brown University, among other placements.