6 de September de 2024 In Fellow

Manu Misra

Manu Misra is a researcher at the University of São Paulo’s International Relations Research Center (NUPRI-USP) and, more recently, a global postdoctoral fellow at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) School of Law in São Paulo. Specializing in foreign investment law, policy and politics, he received his PhD in Legal Studies (International Law and Economics) from the Bocconi University of Milan, Italy, and an LLM in Law and Economics from the University of Hamburg, Germany. He was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law in Luxembourg and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. Previously, he also worked for the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, where he contributed to the drafting of India’s Model Bilateral Investment Treaty 2015.



3 de September de 2024 In Experts and Staff, Fellow

Lisa Thompson

Fellow Researcher

Professor Lisa Thompson is a political economist based at the University of the Western Cape. Lisa specialises in the research activist tradition of examining local impacts of global and national policy initiatives focused on targeting the scourge of inequality. Lisa writes extensively on the BRICS bloc and FOCAC as well as related global, continental and more nationally based economic policy dynamics.



26 de August de 2024 In Experts and Staff, Fellow

Linjie Chou Zanadu

Contact: linjiechouzanadu@gmail.com
Nationality:  Swedish
Short Bio:

Linjie Chou Zanadu is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the European Centre for Peace and Development, established by the United Nations University for Peace. His research interests include the Anglo-Saxon hegemonic structure, US-China relations, and race relations. At the BRICS Policy Institute, Linjie focuses on Brazilian racial discourse. His academic contributions have been published in several respected journals, including the Brussels Economic Review, the International Journal of Global Studies, and the Zagreb Business and Economic Review, among others.



19 de June de 2024 In G20 EN

Bibiana Maia

Press Officer

Journalist and Master in Sustainable Development Practices (UFRRJ)
Contact: bibianamaia@gmail.com



5 de June de 2024 In Uncategorized

Caroline Assis

Research Intern (PhD student at IRI/PUC-Rio)



28 de May de 2024 In Equipe Colaboradores EN, Equipe EN, Experts and Staff

Beatriz Teixeira

Collaborator

Beatriz Nazareth de Souza Teixeira is a master’s student in International Relations at the Institute of International Relations (IRI) at PUC-Rio and a Monitoring and Evaluation consultant at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in Geneva, Switzerland. She has a bachelor’s degree in Law, an MBA in Biodiversity and Sustainability and a professional specialization in Sustainability Management. She researches the intersection between gender, data and development. With a professional background in education and technology, she was the coordinator of the CDI Global network and the Technology at School Observatory at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation’s Center for Excellence and Innovation in Educational Policies (CEIPE/FGV). She is a researcher with the network project Critical Approaches to Development, coordinated by Prof. Isabel Rocha de Siqueira, and in the consultancies provided to g7+ with SEED/BPC.



28 de May de 2024 In Equipe Assistente de Pesquisa EN, Equipe EN, Experts and Staff, G20 EN

Lucas Carames

Researcher

Graduated in International Relations from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (2012). Master’s degree from the Postgraduate Program in International Political Economy (PEPI-UFRJ), with a dissertation on International Financial Regulation in the aftermath of the 2007/2008 crisis. PhD in International Relations from the graduate program in International Relations of the Institute of International Relations of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Visiting researcher at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO – Buenos Aires) (2018). Assistant Coordinator for the BRICS Policy Center in Task Force 03 for the Reform of the International Financial Architecture of the T20, under the Brazilian presidency of the G20 (2024). Research interest and work in International Relations and International Political Economy, particularly in topics related to Currency/Money, Finance, International Monetary System, International Financial Regulation and BRICS. Interest in theoretical discussions associated with Critical Theory, Hegemony, Structural Power, Constructivism and post-positivist epistemologies.



9 de April de 2024 In Equipe Assistente de Pesquisa EN, Equipe EN, Experts, Experts and Staff, G20

Dani Dias

Researcher

Lattes
Dani Dias is a political scientist and PhD candidate at the Institute of International Relations of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is a researcher at the Center for Research on Geopolitics, Regional Integration and the World System – GIS/UFRJ, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He worked as a visiting researcher for the Global Partnership Network (GPN) at the University of Kassel, Germany (2023/2024). He holds a master’s degree from the Graduate Program in Political Science at the University of Brasília (2019), in the area of Democracy and Inequality. He also has a degree in Political Science from the University of Brasilia (2015).



5 de April de 2024 In Ensured, Equipe EN, Equipe Pesquisadores EN, Experts and Staff

Kai Michael Kenkel

Researcher

Lattes
He is Associate Professor 2 and Vice-Coordinator of the Academic Postgraduate Program at the Institute of International Relations of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (IRI/PUC-Rio). Since 2014 he has been an Associated Researcher at the German Institute of Global and Areas Studies in Hamburg, where he completed a post-doctoral period in 2016-2017. She has a CNPq Level 2 productivity grant and a FAPERJ Scientist Grant. She holds a doctorate and a master’s degree from the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales (IUHEI, now IHEID/Graduate Institute) in Geneva, and an undergraduate degree (with Departmental Honors) from Johns Hopkins University. He has taught at renowned universities in Brazil, Canada, Germany and Switzerland. He is the General Coordinator of the Democracy and Armed Forces Center at PUC-Rio. From 2013 to 2016 he was Coordinator of the Graduate Program at IRI/PUC-Rio and from 2010 to 2013, editor of the magazine Contexto Internacional. He was Director of Institutional Relations for the Brazilian Association of Defense Studies from 2014 to 2016. He is currently Coordinator of the Thematic Area of International Security, Strategic Studies and Defense Policy of the Brazilian Association of International Relations (ABRI). He publishes, teaches and advises in the area of international security, with an emphasis on peace operations, humanitarian intervention, civil-military relations and small arms.



3 de April de 2024 In Equipe EN, Equipe Pesquisadores EN, Experts, Experts and Staff, Plataforma Socioambiental

Paula Sandrin

Researcher

Lattes

Adjunct Professor of International Relations at IRI/PUC-Rio, with a doctorate (2013) and a master’s degree (2007 – with merit) in International Relations from the University of Westminster and a degree in Social Communication from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio De Janeiro (2004). She is co-editor of Contexto Internacional: journal of global connections. Her teaching and research interests include the role of affects and emotions in global politics and economics; psychoanalytic approaches in IR; racial issues in IR; relations between the European Union and Turkey.