Ana Elisa Saggioro Garcia

Researcher

Lattes

Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Relations at PUC-Rio. General Coordinator of the BRICS Policy Center. Professor of the Graduate Program in Social Sciences at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. PhD in International Relations from IRI / PUC-Rio and Master in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin (Germany). Member of the editorial board of the Socialist Register (Canada). Vice-coordinator of the thematic area of International Political Economy of the Brazilian Association of International Relations (ABRI). Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of International Relations Studies (LIERI / UFRRJ). Researcher at the Institute for Political Alternatives for the Southern Cone (PACS). She has publications in International Political Economy, Critical Theory, Gramsci, hegemony, imperialism, multinational companies, and South-South relations.

Heloisa Gama

Heloisa has devoted her entire professional life to study the issues of modern slavery, child labour and human trafficking, being invited to have a seat at the “State Committee of Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Slavery of Rio de Janeiro (CETP/COETRAE-RJ)”, with relevant publications and the production of a documentary on her field of study. She has recently co-founded her own institution – Instituto MiGRa, that is an Institute that aims for the generation of livelihoods of those affected by the multiple vulnerabilities of the migration agenda, understanding that gender and race matters are relevant to the problem. Academically, Heloisa holds a Professional Master’s in International Policy Management and Analysis, by MAPI (IRI/PUC-Rio) and is enrolled in a “lato sensu” graduate program in Applied International Law offered by the Brazilian School of Law (EBRADI).

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 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 Ph.D. in international law from the University of Essex and is a Visiting Fellow at its Human Rights Center.

Carlos Frederico Coelho

Carlos Frederico Coelho is a lawyer graduated from the National Faculty of Law, UFRJ, and holds a Masters Degree in International and European Relations at Linkoping University, Sweden. PhD in Political Science at the Institute of Social and Political Studies, UERJ, he is a member of the T20 Task Force on Trade and Development.

Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann

Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann is a Professor of International Relations at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Freie Universitaet Berlin (2012-2015), Erfurt Universitaet (2010-2012) and London School of Economics (2008-2010). She has published about legitimacy and democracy at the global level, international organizations, and regional integration in Latin America and Europe, among others.

Silvia Marina Pinheiro

Silvia Marina Pinheiro is a professor in the Professional Master’s in Policy Analysis and Management (IRI/PUC-Rio), where she teaches two courses: The Sociobiodiversity Value Chains and Modern Slavery Norms Implementation into Global Supply Chains. She works socially organizing cooperatives and community business in urban and rural areas and has several research partnerships with international universities to study human rights and environment. Silvia holds a master’s degree in International Relations, by Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (IRI/PUC-Rio) and a PhD in International Law by the Rio de Janeiro’s State University.