Adriano Massuda is a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Advisor of the Pan-American Health Organization, PAHO, and Professor of Public Health and Management at the Federal University of Paraná. Over the past six years, he has served as a public manager in various positions in the Brazilian Unified Health System, SUS. His research focuses on Health Policy and System, Reform Health System and Innovation.

Albert Fishlow is currently a Professor Emeritus at both the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University. His published research has addressed issues in economic history, Brazilian and Latin American development strategy, and economic relations between industrialized and developing countries. His most recent books include O Novo Brasil (Editora SaintPaul, 2011) and Starting Over: Brazil Since 1985 (Brookings, 2011).

Beatriz Magaloni is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. She also served as an affiliated faculty member of the Woods Institute of the Environment (2011-2013) and a Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Center for International Development. Her research focuses on governance, poverty reduction, electoral clientelism, the provision of public goods, and criminal violence.

Brian D. Farrell is the Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Curator in Entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. Farrell is an authority on coevolution between insects and plants. He is the author of many dozens of scientific papers and book chapters on the evolution of ecological interactions in the tropics and temperate zones, and today has projects aimed at the coevolution of mosquitoes, their hosts and the pathogens that connect them. Professor Farrell received a B.A. in Zoology and Botany from the University of Vermont and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland.

Candelaria Garay is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Her research focuses on social policy, collective action, and party politics in Latin America. Her forthcoming book seeks to characterize and explain the recent expansion of and cross-country variation in social policy programs to populations historically excluded from social protection in Latin America. She received a Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires.

Claudia Costin is a Visiting Professor of the Harvard School of Education and is creating, in conjunction with the Getulio Vargas Foundation (Rio, Brazil), a Think-Tank on Education Policy. She was, until recently, Senior Director for Global Education at the World Bank. Prior to joining the World Bank, Costin served as Secretary of Education of the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. Under her stewardship, learning results rose by 22 percent in the city. She has held academic positions at the Catholic University of São Paulo, Getulio Vargas Foundation, INSPER Institute of Education and Research, and École Nationale d’Administration Publique in Québec.

Cleuza Rodrigues Repulho is a pedagogue with a specialization in School Counseling and a Masters in Youth and Adult Education from Mackenzie University. She has taught undergraduate and graduate programs in various universities and is currently a counselor to Lego Education Brazil, Natura Institute, New School Association, Educational Community - CEDAC, Rodrigo Mendes Institute and a Senior Consultant to the Lemann Foundation. She was the Secretary of Education in the São Bernardo do Campo (SP) and Santo André (SP) municipalities.

Speaker Biographies

Daniela Campello is a Professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV/EBAPE). She was formerly an Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics and at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Campello teaches courses and conducts research on international and comparative political economy, with a particular focus on the consequences of economic internationalization to domestic politics and democracy in emerging economies. Daniela is currently working on a second book project on economic voting and democratic accountability in Latin America.

David N. Plank is a Research Professor at the Stanford University School of Education, and Executive Director of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE). He previously served as a consultant to national and international organizations including the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United States Agency for International Development, the Ford Foundation, and to governments in Africa and Latin America.

Eduardo Viola is a Professor of International Affairs at the Institute of International Relations of the University of Brasilia (IREL – UnB). He is a Senior Researcher at the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and Coordinator of the CNPq Research Group on “The International System in the Anthropocene and Global Climate Change”. He has been a visiting professor for several Universities, among them Stanford, Amsterdam, Notre Dame and Colorado at Boulder. Viola holds a Ph.D. degree in Political Science from the University of Sao Paulo (1982).

Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, where he had been teaching since 1992. He teaches microeconomic theory, and urban and public economics. He served as Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and Director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. His work has focused on the determinants of city growth and the role of cities as centers of idea transmission.

Felipe Correa is a New York based Architect and Urbanist. He is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Urban Design Degree Program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Correa is the author of multiple books including Beyond the City: Resource Extraction Urbanism in South America (University of Texas Press, 2016). In addition, Correa is also the co-founder of Somatic Collaborative, a research based design practice, which focuses on a trans-scalar approach to architecture and urbanism.

Fernando Limongi is a Professor of Political Science at the University of São Paulo (USP). His areas of expertise are the analysis of government institutions in the executive and legislative branches, political regimes, and democracy and development. He graduated with a degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo (1982), a master’s degree in Political Science from the State University of Campinas (1988) and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago (1993).

Fernando Luiz Abrucio is a Professor in Public Administration at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV/SP). His research focuses on topics ranging from Public Administration to Public Policy and Comparative Politics. Within these, he delves into federalism, intergovernmental relations, Brazilian and international public management, educational policy and democratic controls. Abrucio is a founding member of the movement “Todos Pela Educação”, counselor to the Natura Institute, and a former consultant to the Brazilian Government, IDB, UNDP, and the World Bank.

Filipe R. Campante is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. His interests include political economy, development economics, and urban/regional issues. His research looks at what constrains politicians and policy makers beyond formal checks and balances: cultural norms, institutions, media, political protest. Campante is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and is also affiliated with the Center for International Development, the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard.

Frances Hagopian is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government and Faculty Co-Chair, Harvard Brazil Studies Program. She specializes in the comparative politics of Latin America, with emphasis on democratization, political representation, political economy, and religion and politics. She previously taught at the University of Notre Dame, where she was Director of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, as well as Tufts and Harvard Universities. She has also been a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford.

Gustavo S. Azenha is the Director of the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies and the Masters program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Columbia University´s Institute of Latin America Studies (ILAS). Gustavo holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University, with an interdisciplinary background in sociocultural anthropology and the natural sciences. His expertise encompasses social movements, advocacy, and public policy dynamics in Brazil, with research and professional experiences on the environment, public health, and education.

Heather C. Hill is the Jerome T. Murphy Professor in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her primary work focuses on teacher and teaching quality and the effects of policies aimed at improving both. She is also known for developing instruments for measuring teachers’ mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT) and the mathematical quality of instruction (MQI) within classrooms.

Ivelise Longhi has dedicated 33 years of her professional life to urban and social development, public policies and housing projects specially targeted at disadvantaged families. She has extensive experience in public administration, holding various positions at the Federal District Government in Brazil, including serving as Secretary for Housing and Urban Development Secretariat. More recently, she had the chance to lead the Brasilia Metro Company. She is currently retired from public service and dedicated to providing consulting services.

Jerry Dávila is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazilian History and Director of the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies at the University of Illinois. He studies the influence of racial thought on public policy. He is the author of Dictatorship in South America (Wiley, 2013); Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization (Duke, 2010), winner of the LASA Brazil Section Prize; and Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil (Duke, 2003). Dávila currently serves as President of the Conference on Latin American History.

João Manoel Pinho de Mello is Professor of Economics at Insper. Since 2011, he has co-headed the America Latina Crime and Policy Network (AL CAPONE), a network of researchers sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA). He is currently a columnist with Folha de São Paulo, where he writes a biweekly article on economics. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and a researcher of the Brazilian National Counsel of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).

Jorge Paulo Lemann Jorge Paulo Lemann regards education as Brazil’s most important challenge. He is the Founder and Chair of the Lemann Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that focuses on improving public education in Brazil. He is also the Co-Founder and a Board Member of Fundação Estudar, an organization that has provided merit-based scholarships for exceptional Brazilians to study at leading Universities in the United States, Brazil, and other countries for two decades. Lemann is also one of the controlling shareholders of Anheuser-Busch Inbev (ABI), the world’s biggest brewer. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard College in 1961.

José Luiz Ratton is Professor and Researcher in the Department of Sociology and the Coordinator of the Center for Studies and Research in Crime, Violence and Security Public Policy (the NEPS/UFPE). He has experience in Sociology and Political Science, with an emphasis on the Sociology of Crime and Violence, Public Policy, Security, and Sociology of Drugs. Ratton has been special advisor for public safety issues in the state government of Pernambuco, and a Consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Bank.

José Mariano Beltrame, has been a Brazilian Federal Police Officer since 1981 and is the former State Security Secretary of Rio de Janeiro, having occupied the position for ten years. He has been the Chief of the Police Intelligence Agency of the Federal Police Office in Rio de Janeiro and the head of Interpol. As the longtime Chief of Security of the state of Rio de Janeiro, he directed the UPP Program (Pacifying Police Units) in 38 favelas (slums) controlled by drug trafficking and organized criminal gangs. The UPPs and other initiatives led by Beltrame resulted in a strong decline in violent crime in Rio de Janeiro since 2009.

Joseph Love is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is interested in the history of economic ideas, policy, and performance in Brazil and in Latin America as a whole. Earlier, he studied regionalism in Brazil. Love was previously the director of the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies and the director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Marcelo Costa e Castro is a Congressman in the Brazilian Lower House. Castro holds a Ph.D. in Psychiatry from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). A former university professor, Marcelo Costa e Castro is an experienced Brazilian politician dedicated to common wellbeing and social justice issues related to the country’s political reform agenda. Currently serving his eighth term in elective office, Castro is a member of the Foreign Relations Commission in the Chamber of Deputies, recently led Brazil’s Ministry of Health and was the Rapporteur for the Special Commission for Political Reform.

Marcelo Neri is a Professor of Economics at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (EPGE/FGV). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University. Formerly, Vargas was the secretary-general of the Council of Economic and Social Development (CDES), president of the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA) and Minister of Strategic Affairs in Brazil. He has evaluated policies in more than a dozen countries and designed and implemented policies at three government levels in Brazil. He was twice named one of the 100 most influential Brazilians.

Márcia Lima is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of São Paulo, and Senior Researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Panning (CEBRAP) and the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM). Her research focuses on racial inequality. She has published on the labor market, occupational trajectories, race and gender inequalities, and affirmative action policies in Brazil. Lima is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research, Harvard University.

Marcio Lacerda Mayor of Belo Horizonte (MG), is a member of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) and the President of the Brazilian National Front of Mayors for the biennium 2015/2016. In 1975, he began a successful career as an entrepreneur, creating two telecommunications companies, with operations in 16 Brazilian states, Chile and Bolivia. He was named the best mayor of Brazil three times by Ibope and Datafolha, and one of the best mayors in the world by the City Mayors Foundation.

Mark C. Elliott is the Vice Provost of International Affairs at Harvard University and the Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Department of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. An authority on the last four centuries of Chinese history, Elliott’s research encompasses the history of relations between China and its nomadic frontier. A graduate of Yale (BA 1981 summa cum laude, MA 1984), Elliott earned his Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Berkeley and joined the Harvard faculty in 2003.

Martin Carnoy is the Vida Jacks Professor of Education at the Stanford University School of Education. Prior to going to Stanford, he was a Research Associate in Economics, Foreign Policy Division, at the Brookings Institution. He is also a consultant to the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, UNESCO, IEA, OECD, UNICEF, International Labour Office. Dr. Carnoy is a labor economist with a special interest in the relation between the economy and the educational system.

Mary Arends-Kuenning is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois and served as Director of the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies from 2011 to 2014. She was Executive Director of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) from 2011 to 2014. She is an economic demographer who focuses on household decisions. Her research areas include children’s schooling, child labor, household consumption, and international migration.

Paula Louzano is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of São Paulo School of Education and a Visiting Scholar at the Lemann Center for Educational Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Brazil at Stanford University. Her research interests include equality of educational opportunities, and design, implementation and evaluation of educational policies in Brazil and Latin America. She is currently conducting research on teacher education and professional development, as well as curricular policies.

Paulo Blikstein is Assistant Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and the Computer Science Department, where he directs the Transformative Learning Technologies Lab (TLTL) and co-directs the Lemann Center for Educational Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Brazil. Blikstein’s research focuses on how new technologies can deeply transform the learning of STEM. He creates and researches cutting-edge educational technologies, such as computer modeling, robotics, physical computing, tangible user interfaces, and digital fabrication to create hands-on, constructionist learning environments.

Paulo Teixeira is the National Vice President for the Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores). He holds a BA in Law and an MA in Public Law from the University of São Paulo Law School. Teixera was a state legislator for two terms, and has been recognized as one of the 100 most important figures in Brazil in the fight against AIDS. Previously, he served as the Municipal Housing Secretary of São Paulo. As a congressman, he was elected in 2006 and reelected in 2010 and 2014, winning for three consecutive times the Congress in Focus prize, which recognizes the work of the best senators and congressmen in Brazil.

Rodrigo R. Soares is the Lemann Professor of Brazilian Public Policy and International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Professor Soares’ research centers around development economics, ranging from labor, human capital, and demographic economics to crime. His work has appeared in various scientific journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Development Economics. Prior to joining Columbia, Soares taught at São Paulo School of Economics-FGV, PUC-Rio, the University of Maryland, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

Ruben Oliven is a Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. During the 2016-17 academic year, he is the Lemann Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. from the University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science) and has been a visiting professor at several universities, including the University of California at Berkeley, Dartmouth College, Brown University, and the University of Paris.

Scott Mainwaring is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazil Studies and the Faculty Co-chair of the Harvard Brazil Studies Program. He joined the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School in 2016 after teaching at the University of Notre Dame for 33 years. He served as director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies for 13 years. His research interests include democratic institutions and democratization; authoritarian and democratic regimes; political parties and party systems; and the Catholic Church in Latin America. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.

Sergio Silva do Amaral is the Brazilian Ambassador to the United States. Ambassador Amaral received a law degree from the University of São Paulo and a Diploma of Superior Studies in Political Science from the University of Paris I (Panthéon Sorbonne). As a career diplomat, he has served in Paris, Bonn, Geneva and Washington D.C. Ambassador Amaral has occupied several high level positions in the Brazilian government, such as Vice-Minister for the Environment, Secretary of Social Communication and Spokesman for President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. He was also Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, and Chairman of the Foreign Trade Council of Ministers (CAMEX) and the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES).

Sidney Chalhoub is a Professor of History at Harvard University. Prior to joining Harvard Faculty in 2015, Professor Chalhoub taught history at the University of Campinas. He also published Machado de Assis, historiador (2003), about the literature and political ideas of the most important nineteenth-century Brazilian novelist, and co-edited five other books on the social history of Brazil. His last monograph is A força da escravidão (2012), on illegal enslavement and the precariousness of freedom in nineteenth-century Brazil.

Thomas J. Trebat is the director of the Columbia Global Centers in Rio de Janeiro. He joined Columbia after a lengthy career on Wall Street dedicated to economic research on Latin America. He formerly served as Executive Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University and of the Institute’s Center for Brazilian Studies. Prior to joining ILAS in February 2005, Tom was the Managing Director and Head of the Latin America team in the Economic and Market Analysis department of Citigroup. Dr. Trebat holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Vanderbilt University and remains active in teaching and publishing.

Thomas Kane is an economist and Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at Harvard. He directed the Measures of Effective Teaching project for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-- still the largest study of classroom practice ever undertaken. He has studied the design of school accountability systems, charter schools, teacher effectiveness, financial aid for college, race-conscious college admissions and the earnings impacts of community colleges. Kane has also been a faculty member at Harvard’s Kennedy School and at UCLA and has held fellowships at the Brookings Institution and the Hoover Institution.

William Clark is the Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Trained as an ecologist, his research focuses on sustainability science. He is particularly interested in how institutional arrangements affect the linkage between knowledge and action in the sustainability arena. At Harvard, he currently co-directs the Sustainability Science Program. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Prize, the Humboldt Prize, the Kennedy School’s Carballo Award for excellence in teaching, and the Harvard College Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Excellence in Teaching.