Adriano Massuda is a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Global Health and Population at the Daniela Campello is a Professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Getulio Vargas Foundation Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Advisor of the Pan-American Health Organization, PAHO, and (FGV/EBAPE). She was formerly an Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics and at the Woodrow Professor of Public Health and Management at the Federal University of Paraná. Over the past six years, Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Campello teaches courses and he has served as a public manager in various positions in the Brazilian Unified Health System, SUS. His conducts research on international and comparative political economy, with a particular focus on the research focuses on Health Policy and System, Reform Health System and Innovation. 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. 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. David N. Plank is a Research Professor at the Stanford University School of Education, and Executive His most recent books include O Novo Brasil (Editora SaintPaul, 2011) and Starting Over: Brazil Since Director of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE). He previously served as a consultant to 1985 (Brookings, 2011). 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 Beatriz Magaloni is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Senior Fellow at America. 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, Eduardo Viola is a Professor of International Affairs at the Institute of International Relations of the electoral clientelism, the provision of public goods, and criminal violence. 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 Brian D. Farrell is the Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Professor of Universities, among them Stanford, Amsterdam, Notre Dame and Colorado at Boulder. Viola holds a Ph.D. Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Curator in Entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology degree in Political Science from the University of Sao Paulo (1982). 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 Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and pathogens that connect them. Professor Farrell received a B.A. in Zoology and Botany from the University Sciences at Harvard University, where he had been teaching since 1992. He teaches microeconomic of Vermont and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland. 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. 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. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript that seeks to characterize and explain the recent expansion Felipe Correa is a New York based Architect and Urbanist. He is currently an Associate Professor and of and cross-country variation in social policy programs to populations historically excluded from social Director of the Urban Design Degree Program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. protection in Latin America. She received a Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from the University of Correa is the author of multiple books including “Beyond the City: Resource Extraction Urbanism in California, Berkeley, and holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires. 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. 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 Fernando Limongi is a Professor of Political Science at the University of São Paulo (USP). His areas of served as Secretary of Education of the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. Under her stewardship, learning expertise are the analysis of government institutions in the Executive and Legislative branches, Political results rose by 22 percent in the city. She has held academic positions at the Catholic University of São Regimes, Democracy and Development. He graduated with a degree in Social Sciences from the University Paulo, Getulio Vargas Foundation, INSPER Institute of Education and Research, and École Nationale of São Paulo (1982), a master’s degree in Political Science from the State University of Campinas (1988) d’Administration Publique in Québec. and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago (1993). Cleuza Rodrigues Repulho is a pedagogue with a specialization in School Counseling and a Masters Fernando Luiz Abrucio is a Professor in Public Administration at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV/ in Youth and Adult Education from Mackenzie University. She has taught undergraduate and graduate SP). His research focuses on topics ranging from Public Administration to Public Policy and Comparative programs in various universities and is currently a counselor to Lego Education Brazil, Natura Institute, Politics. Within these, he delves into federalism, intergovernmental relations, Brazilian and international New School Association, Educational Community - CEDAC, Rodrigo Mendes Institute and a Senior public management, educational policy and democratic controls. Abrucio is a founding member of the Consultant to the Lemann Foundation. She was the Secretary of Education in the São Bernardo do Campo movement “Todos Pela Educação” and counselor to the Natura Institute, and a former consultant to the (SP) and Santo André (SP) municipalities. Brazilian Government, IDB, UNDP, and the World Bank. Filipe R. Campante is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. His Jorge Paulo Lemann interests include the political economy, development economics, and urban/regional issues. His research Jorge Paulo Lemann regards education as Brazil’s most important challenge. He is the Founder and Chair looks at what constrains politicians and policy makers beyond formal checks and balances: cultural norms, of the Lemann Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that focuses on improving public education in institutions, media, political protest. Campante is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Brazil. He is also the Co-Founder and a Board Member of Fundação Estudar, an organization that has Economic Research (NBER), and is also affiliated with the Center for International Development, the provided merit-based scholarships for exceptional Brazilians to study at leading Universities in the United Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at States, Brazil, and other countries for two decades. Lemann is also one of the controlling shareholders of Harvard. Anheuser-Busch Inbev (ABI), the world’s biggest brewer. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard College in 1961. 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 José Luiz Ratton is Professor and Researcher in the Department of Sociology and the Coordinator of the previously taught at the University of Notre Dame, where she was Director of the Helen Kellogg Institute Center for Studies and Research in Crime, Violence and Security Public Policy (the NEPS/UFPE). He has