Marco Widodo

Marco is a coterminal M.A. candidate in International Policy on the Governance and Development track. He is concurrently finishing his B.A. in Political Science at Stanford with concentrations in Political Economy & Development and Data Science. Marco is also currently writing an honors thesis with the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), leveraging survey experiments to investigate how different conceptualizations of democracy influence public responses to democratic backsliding in Indonesia.

He has previously worked at the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) unit and the National Endowment for Democracy’s International Forum for Democratic Studies (IFDS). His research interests lie at the intersection of comparative governance, international political economy, and democratic resilience, having served as a research assistant with both the Stanford Next Asia Policy Lab and the Hoover Institution. In his spare time, he enjoys listening to jazz, going camping, and trying out new recipes.