Members of the Committee

  • André Portela Fernandes de Souza

    Professor at the São Paulo School of Economics of Fundação Getulio Vargas, coordinator of the Center for Applied Microeconomics (C-Micro) and director of the FGV EESP CLEAR Center and the Regional Center for Learning in Evaluation and Results for Brazil and Lusophone Africa of the same institution. Holds a Bachelor of Economics from Bahia Federal University (1989), Master in Economics from the University of São Paulo (1995) and Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University (2001). Was professor at the University of São Paulo, associate adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University and visiting professor at Cornell University. Was editor of the magazine Estudos Econômicos and executive secretary of the Brazilian Society of Econometrics. Has experience in the area of economics, with emphasis on labor economics and social economics, working mainly in the following themes: labor market, social security, inequality, poverty, education, child labor and evaluation of public policies.

  • Cesar Zucco Junior

    Cesar Zucco received his PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2007.  He has been an Associate Professor at the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV-EBAPE) since July 2013 where his research and teaching focuses on comparative politics and comparative public policy. He was previously an assistant professor at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and has held visiting appointments at Princeton, Yale, and Oxford.

  • Claudio José Struchiner

    Full Professor at the School of Applied Mathematics (EMAp), Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Graduated in Medicine from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1976), he has a master's degree in Mathematics from the National Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (1980) and a Ph.D. in Population Dynamics of Infectious Diseases - Harvard University (1988). He is a CNPq research productivity scholarship holder, retired full-time researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, and an adjunct professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. Among his professional activities, he was also a professor at the Faculty of Medicine at UFRJ, Visiting Professor at the University of Montreal, Canada, and Fulbright Scholar at Yale University, USA. He has experience in the field of Public Health, with an emphasis on Epidemiology, working mainly on the following themes: evaluation of vaccine efficacy, development of epidemiological methods for the study of infectious diseases, and development of quantitative models for describing the dynamics of transmission of infectious agents. Summary of publications: Web of Science Number of Articles 159, Citations 3341, index h-29.

  • Dora Selma Fix Ventura

    Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology of the Institute of Psychology from 1968 to 2009, and remains a tenured professor (retired), acting as a senior collaborator. Bachelor of Psychology from the School of Philosophy and Letters of the University of São Paulo (1961) and Master and Doctorate in Experimental Psychology from Columbia University, New York, (M.A., 1964; Ph.D., 1968). Obtained habilitation in 1988 and became a full professor in 1990. At the Institute of Psychology of USP, was vice-director and served two terms as chairwoman of the Department of Experimental Psychology. Formerly was vice-president of the Brazilian Society for Scientific Progress (2013-2015) and vice-president of the Brazilian Society of Psychology (2013-2015). Full member of the Brazilian Academy of Science and of TWAS - Academy of Sciences for the Developing World. Received the Grand Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit, the CAPES 50-Year Medal and Brazil Neurosciences Medal.

  • Eduardo Bittencourt Andrade

    Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA (2004); Master in Marketing from École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Montreal, Canada (1996); and Bachelor of Administration from Santa Catarina Federal University (UFSC) (1993). Tenured professor at EBAPE/FGV and head of the Center for Academic Training and Research (CFAP). Was assistant professor (2004-2010) and has been tenured associate professor since 2010 at the Haas School of Business of the University of California at Berkeley. Associate editor of the Journal of Consumer Research (2014-2017) and member of the editorial boards of Journal of Marketing Research and Journal of Consumer Psychology. Among his awards are the Early Career Award 2011 given by the Association for Consumer Research and the Outstanding Reviewer Award 2011 given by Journal of Consumer Research. His main research area involves the role of emotions in consumers’ decisions.

  • Eduardo Mello

    Adjunct Professor at Fundação Getulio Vargas and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in International Relations. His research interests include governance, distributive policies, education, corruption, clientelism, and the political economy of the provision of public goods. Eduardo is currently working on a research project on the use of corruption in new democracies. Eduardo has a degree and master's degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and a doctorate from the London School of Economics.

  • Jorge Manoel Teixeira Carneiro

    Associate Professor of Strategy and International Business at FGV São Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV/EAESP). Carneiro is a member of the board of AIB-LAC (Academy of International Business, Latin America & Caribbean chapter) and of the Governance Committee of the Amcham Brazil, and served as chair of the Strategy division of ANPAD (the Brazilian Academy of Management, 2015-2017), member of the board of EIBA (European International Business Academy, 2011-2016), Executive President of EIBA (2015), and member of the Executive Committee of BALAS (Business Association of Latin American Studies, 2009-2014).

  • Kaizô Iwakami Beltrão

    Ph.D. in Statistics from the Department of Statistics of Princeton University (1981); Master of Applied Mathematics from the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA) (1977); and Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the Brazilian Air Force Technology Institute (1974). Consultant to public and private multilateral organizations (IDB, World Bank). He was research assistant and then assistant researcher at IMPA and professor/researcher at ENCE/IBGE. He was coordinator of the Graduate Program of ENCE/IBGE, and later superintendent of ENCE/IBGE for about 10 years and at the same time a member of the board of Directors of IBGE. Kaizô Beltrão was an alternate member of the Federal Council on the Elderly of the Justice Ministry, member of the Actuarial Board of Previc (MPS) and the Advisory Board of “Avalia Educacional”. He is presently associate editor of the Education Policy Analysis Archives.

  • Marcelo Castello Branco Sant'anna

    Assistant Professor at FGV EPGE - Brazilian School of Economics and Finance since August 2016. Before joining FGV EPGE, he obtained a PhD in Economics at Yale University (2016), Master in Economics at FGV EPGE (2016) and Bachelor in Economics at FGV EPGE (2007). He has experience in the fields of Industrial Organization and Energy and Environmental Economics. His current research spans broad themes in those fields such as empirical auctions, land use and deforestation and electricity demand.

  • Márcio Grijó Vilarouca

    Márcio Vilarouca has a degree in Social Sciences (UFSC), with a master's and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University Research Institute of the State of Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ, currently IESP). He was the coordinator of the research sector at CPDOC between 2017 and 2020. Since joining FGV, he has been a professor at the School of Social Sciences at CPDOC, at the Graduate Program in History, Politics and Cultural Property (PPHPBC) and Coordinator of the Applied Research Center - FGV Opinion. Currently, he develops the following research themes: political recruitment, political parties and the social impacts of UPPs in Rio's favelas.

  • Maria Tereza Aina Sadek

    Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of São Paulo. Professor at the Political Science Department at USP and at the Center for the Study of Economic and Social Law (CEDES). She was executive director of the Judicial Research Department at the CNJ, the presidency minister Carmen Lucia. Councilor of CONAR. Member of the Research and Innovation Committee of Fundação Getúlio Vargas. He has studies on Political Theory and on the institutions of the Justice System.

  • Osny da Silva Filho

    Undergraduate and professional master's professor at FGV Direito SP. PhD student in law at the University of São Paulo (USP), with a sandwich period at Harvard Law School (2018-2019). Visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law and Private International Law (2019). Master of Laws from USP (2016), with a sandwich period at the University of California Law School, Berkeley (2013-2014). Bachelor of Laws from USP (2012), with part of the degree taken at the Universities of Rome I “La Sapienza” and II “Tor Vergata” (2009-2010).

  • Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida

    Professor of International Law at the Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School in Rio de Janeiro and Professor of International Law of the Masters in International Relations of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro. Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Chair, funded by the European Commission, and member of the Centre for Studies on Judiciary and Society of the FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School. Associate Researcher at the Institute of International and European Law at the Sorbonne (IREDIES). Doctorate summa cum laude in International and European Law from the University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne and from the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (cotutelle). Researcher of the Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations of The Hague Academy of International Law (2010). Visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (2014). Member of the ILA Committee on the Procedural Law of International Courts and Tribunals. Chair of the Latin American Society of International Law (LASIL) Interest Group on ‘International Courts and Tribunals’.