Lisa Thompson





Cândido Grinsztejn

Research Intern (Master’s student at IRI/PUC-Rio)



Renan Canellas

Research Intern (Master’s student at IRI/PUC-Rio)

Master’s student in International Relations at IRI/PUC-Rio and BA (2023) from the same institution. He is currently a research assistant at LACID/BRICS Policy Center. He also works as a researcher at the Conjuncture Assessment Center (NAC/EGN), the Korean Studies Curatorship (CEÁSIA/UFPE) and the Asia-Pacific Studies League (LEAP/PUC-Rio). Her interests include: International Relations Theory; Religion in International Relations; Multilateral Development Banks and Financing for the Energy Transition; and Asian Studies (with an emphasis on China-South America Relations, Inter-Korean Relations, Indian Foreign Policy and Contemporary India).



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).



Argiro Moudatsou

Argiro Moudatsou, research fellow in BRICS Policy Center (2019-2020) holds a degree in Economics from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), a Master in Econometrics from Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece), and a Ph.D in Applied Economics from Technische Universitaet Berlin(Germany)

She is Associate Professor in Economics in Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU)

Over the past ten years in addition to her academic duties, she worked as a partner in the Research Secretary of the Greek Econometric Institute, in the structure of Econometric Model of Greek Economy. Also she held various administration posts; 2018-2019 Director of Postgraduate Programm in Tourism Studies (HMU-School of Management and Economics, 2016-2018 Head of Business Administration Department- HMU-School of Management and Economics, 2008-2011 Head of Internal Evaluation Committee of Tourism Department HMU , School of Management and Economics.

Her principal research interests concern the field of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Multinational Enterprises Activities in Developing Countries. Her recent research interests are in the field of Economic Growth , Income Inequalities and Emerging Economies issues, with focus on the economies of BRICS.



Mariana Gamarra

Assistant Researcher

Mariana Gamarra has a degree in International Relations from PUC-Rio and a master’s degree in Anthropology and Sociology of Development from the Graduate Institute in Geneva. She is also a Junior Policy Researcher at the Policy and Institutional Research Project at Harvard University and her research interests are in the contribution of social movements in Latin America in driving alternative models of/development, especially in Bolivia and Argentina. She is currently an intern at the OECD in Paris, focusing on monitoring and evaluation processes. She is a researcher with the network project Critical Approaches to Development, coordinated by Prof. Isabel Rocha de Siqueira.



Aline Vasconcelos

She holds a B.A. in International Relations from the University of São Paulo (2009), and a master’s degree (2012) and a PhD (2018), also in International Relations, from PUC-Rio. Her expertise area are humanitarian campaigns, humanitarian law and humanitarian diplomacy. Aline also has professional experience in South-South Cooperation in the context of South America, especially in health government issues. From 2013 to 2018 she worked with local governments diplomacy, local multilateral cooperation and urban development.