Short Biography:

Full Professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of São Paulo (USP). He was President of FINEP (2011-2015) and Tinker Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA, 2010). He was a member of the National Science and Technology Council (CCT, 2007-2011) and was General Coordinator of the Observatory of Innovation and Competitiveness at the Institute of Advanced Studies at USP (2007-2011).

From 2003 to 2006 he was President of the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) and General Coordinator of the Center for Strategic Affairs of the Presidency of the Republic (NAE, 2003-2006). He was a member of the Group of Advisers of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP-UN, 2006-2009) and a Fulbright New Century Scholar (2009-2010).

Professor at the Department of Political Science at UNICAMP (1996-1997) and at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-SP, 1995). He carried out post-doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT (USA, 1999 and 2010), at Columbia University (USA, 2007 and 2009), at the University of California - Berkeley (USA, 2008), at the London School of Economics (United Kingdom, 2002).