Marta Fernández
Director of the BRICS Policy Center | Researcher
Marta Fernández is an Associate Professor at the Institute of International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (IRI-PUC/Rio), where she also obtained her doctorate. She is Director of the BRICS Policy Center, a think tank affiliated with IRI-PUC/Rio. Previously, she was Director of IRI/PUC-Rio (2016-2020) and President of the Brazilian Association of International Relations (2021-2023). She is one of the editors of the series “Global Political Sociology,” published by Palgrave-Macmillan. She was the academic leader in Brazil of the GlobalGRACE (Global Gender and Cultures of Equality) Project (2018-2022). Her current research and publications deal with global governance, BRICS, postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, race, and gender relations.