Ana Carolina Cardoso

Researcher

PhD student in Environmental Studies at York University, Canada. Researcher at the Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages (CIKL) and collaborator with Indigenous Climate Action (ICA). She holds a master’s degree in International Relations from IRI/PUC-Rio and a bachelor’s degree in Law from FGV Direito Rio. She researches the intersections between coloniality, modernity and nature, with an interest in critiques of development, the Anthropocene and decolonial futures. She is a researcher for the network Abordagens Críticas ao Desenvolvimento (ACD-Rede) and a reviewer for the Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais (RBCS). She has worked as a researcher at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, editor of the journal “Undercurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies” and was a founding fellow of Margaret Atwood’s project “Practical Utopias: An Exploration of the Possible”.

Marta Fernández

BRICS Policy Center’s General Coordinator | Researcher

Lattes

PhD in International Relations from the Institute of International Relations of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2011) with a CAPES sandwich scholarship at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland (2010). She holds a master’s degree in International Relations from IRI-PUC-Rio (1996). Adjunct Professor II, 40 hours, exclusive dedication, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Director of the Institute of International Relations at PUC-Rio (2016-2020). She was coordinator of the Undergraduate Program in International Relations at IRI/PUC-Rio (November 2012 to March 2014). She was coordinator of the Graduate Program at IRI/PUC-Rio (February 2016 to December 2016). FAPERJ Young Scientist Fellow (2017-2018). CNPq Research Productivity Fellow – Level 2. Brazilian editor of Palgrave Macmillan’s Global Political Sociology series. Member of the Fiscal Council of ABRI (Brazilian Association of International Relations). Coordinator of the TEPP Program (Tutoring and Teaching and Research) at the Institute of International Relations of PUC-Rio, researching Africa(s) (2012). Tutor for the PET Program (2013-2016) She has taught at Cândido Mendes University, Unilasalle, Estácio de Sá University and Dom Bosco University.