7 de May de 2025 In Equipe Pesquisadores EN, Experts, Experts and Staff

Pedro Allemand

Post-doctoral researcher (PIPD) at the Institute of International Relations (IRI), PUC-Rio. PhD in International Relations, MA in International Political Economy from UFRJ, BA in International Relations from UFRJ. Specialist in International Political Economy, Climate Change, Development, Security and Arctic Geopolitics.



7 de May de 2025 In Equipe Pesquisadores EN, Experts and Staff

Marília Firmiano

Financier with a specialization in public policy evaluation. She recently worked as a researcher in Monitoring and Evaluation at FGV CLEAR. She was director of public management studies at the Institute of Research and Economic Strategy of Ceará (IPECE), helping to strengthen management for results in the state government. She took part in the Evidence Award Evaluation Committee (ENAP, FGV, IMDS) and founded CAPP/IPECE, a center dedicated to ex ante and ex post evaluation. She is an alumni and mentor of the Vetor Brasil Public Management Trainee Program, with a focus on adaptive leadership.


7 de May de 2025 In Equipe Conselho Consultivo, Experts and Staff

Ana Maria Bierrenbach

Nascida em São Paulo, em 15 de outubro de 1966; 

Bacharel em Direito e História, ambas pela Universidade de São Paulo; 

Mestre em Direito Internacional pela American University em Washington, DC; 

Diplomata de carreira desde 1992; 

Sub Sherpa do Brasil no BRICS (2022-2024); 

Embaixadora do Brasil em Chipre (2025).



2 de May de 2025 In Equipe Administrativa EN, Equipe EN, Experts and Staff, Staff

Vitória Cardoso

Graduating in International Relations from PUC-Rio with an emphasis on International Trade and Politics. She was a member of the International Relations Academic Center, in which she worked mainly in the Communications Working Group, and was part of the IRI/PUC-Rio Communications Team as an intern.



2 de May de 2025 In Equipe EN, Equipe Pesquisadores EN, Experts and Staff

Conor Foley

Dr. Conor Foley has worked on legal reform, human rights and protection issues in over thirty conflict zones for a variety of human rights and humanitarian agencies, including: UN DPKO, UN OHCHR, UNHCR, UN-Habitat and Amnesty International. He is the author of “The Protection of Civilians by UN Peacekeeping missions”, Cambridge University Press, September 2017, and “The Thin Blue Line: how humanitarianism went to war” (Verso: 2010). Other books include: “In Spite of You: Bolsonaro and the New Brazilian Resistance” (2019); “Protecting Brazilians against torture” (2013); “Another system is possible: reforming Brazilian justice” (2012); “Human Rights, Human Wrongs: The Alternative Report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee” (1995); and “Legion of the Rearguard: The IRA and the Modern Irish State” (1992). He obtained his PhD in International Law from the University of Essex and is a Visiting Fellow at its Human Rights Center.

 



2 de May de 2025 In Equipe Pesquisadores EN, Experts and Staff

Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann

Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of International Relations, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She has been a Visiting Professor at the Free University of Berlin (2012-2015), the University of Erfurt (2010-2012) and the London School of Economics (2008-2010). She researches and publishes on legitimacy and democracy in international politics, international organizations, and regional integration in Latin America and Europe, among others.

 



10 de April de 2025 In Equipe Administrativa EN, Equipe EN, Staff

Victoria Coutinho

Communications intern

International Relations undergraduate student at PUC-Rio. She was a tutor in the Basics of Western Political Thought, with interests in the areas of communication and IR and International Trade.





3 de April de 2025 In Equipe Assistente de Pesquisa EN, Equipe EN, Experts, Experts and Staff

Vitor Costa

Lattes

Vitor Costa is a PhD candidate in International Relations (IR) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (IRI/PUC-Rio), with a scholarship from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He holds a Master’s degree in IR from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), funded by the Bahia State Research Support Foundation (FAPESB), and a Bachelor’s degree in Humanities, also from UFBA. He was an associate researcher at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar – Ecuador (2019). He is a researcher with the Globalization of Politics Group and the Interpretations of Brazil Group, both linked to the IR Graduate Program at UFBA. Additionally, he serves as a Research Assistant at the IRI/PUC-Rio Methodology Laboratory. He is fluent in English and Spanish and has an intermediate level of French. His research interests include extractivist development, primitive accumulation of capital, and the links between class formation and racialization in capitalism.



28 de February de 2025 In Equipe Colaboradores EN, Equipe EN, Experts and Staff, GSUM

Isa Mendes

Isa Mendes is a researcher at the Global South Unit for Mediation (GSUM). She holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in International Politics from the Institute of International Relations (IRI) at PUC-Rio, with an emphasis on Conflict, Violence and Pacification. Graduated in Political Science at the University of Houston (2007). Researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Ibero-American Studies (Ei). Research interests: Mediation and Conflict Resolution; Latin American Politics; Political Theory; Democratic Theory.