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 for International Studies, as well as Tufts and Harvard Universities. She has also been a visiting professor at experience in Sociology and Political Science, with an emphasis on the Sociology of Crime and Violence, the London School of Economics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an Associate Member Public Policy, Security, and Sociology of Drugs. Ratton has been special advisor for public safety issues in of Nuffield College, Oxford. the state government of Pernambuco, and a Consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Bank.

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). José Mariano Beltrame, has been a Brazilian Federal Police Officer since 1981 and is the former State Gustavo holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University, with an interdisciplinary background in sociocultural Security Secretary of Rio de Janeiro, having occupied the position for ten years. He has been the Chief of anthropology and the natural sciences. His expertise encompasses social movements, advocacy, and public the Police Intelligence Agency of the Federal Police Office in Rio de Janeiro and the head of Interpol. As policy dynamics in Brazil, with research and professional experiences on the environment, public health, the longtime head of security of the state of Rio de Janeiro, he has conducted the UPP Program (Pacifying and education. Police Unit) in 38 favelas (slums) controlled by drug trafficking and ganizedor criminal gangs. As a result of the UPP and other initiatives led by Beltrame, Rio de Janeiro’s principal criminal rates have been in a strong decline since 2009. 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 Joseph Love is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is knowledge for teaching (MKT) and the mathematical quality of instruction (MQI) within classrooms. 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 Ivelise Longhi has dedicated 33 years of her professional life to urban and social development, public of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. policies and housing projects specially targeted at disadvantaged families. She has an 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 Marcelo Costa e Castro is a Congressman in the Brazilian Lower House. Castro holds a Ph.D in lead the Brasilia Metro Company. She is currently retired from public service and dedicated to providing Psychiatry from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). A former university professor, Marcelo consulting services. Costa e Castro is an experienced Brazilian politician dedicated to common wellbeing and social justice issues related to the country’s Political Reform agenda. Member of the Foreign Relations Commission in Jerry Dávila is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazilian History and Director of the Lemann the House of Representatives, Castro is currently in his eighth public mandate. Recently, he conducted Institute for Brazilian Studies at the University of Illinois. He studies the influence of racial thought on Brazil’s Ministry of Health and acted as the appointed rapporteur at the Especial Commission for Political public policy. He is the author of Dictatorship in South America (Wiley, 2013); Hotel Trópico: Brazil and Reform. 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. Marcelo Neri is a Professor of Economics at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (EPGE/FGV). He holds a PhD 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 João Manoel Pinho de Mello is Professor of Economics at Insper. Since 2011, he has co-headed the (Ipea) and Minister of Strategic Affairs in Brazil. He evaluated policies in more than a dozen countries and America Latina Crime and Policy Network (AL CAPONE), a network of researchers sponsored by the designed and implemented policies at three government levels in Brazil. He was indicated twice as one of Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA). He is currently a columnist with Folha the 100 most influential Brazilians. de São Paulo, where he writes a biweekly article on economics. He is an affiliated member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and a researcher of the Brazilian National Counsel of Scientific andTechnological Development (CNPq). Márcia Lima is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of São Paulo where she focuses on racial inequality in her scholarship. She is also a senior researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP) and at Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM). She has published on: employment market, occupational trajectories, race and gender inequalities, and affirmative action policies in Brazil. Lima is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Hutchins Marcio Lacerda Mayor of Belo Horizonte –MG, is a member of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) and Paulo Teixeira is the National Vice President for the Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores). He holds the President of the Brazilian National Front of Mayors for the biennium 2015/2016. In 1975, he began a a BA in Law and an MA in Public Law from the University of São Paulo Law School. Teixera was a state successful career as an entrepreneur, creating two telecommunications companies, with operations in 16 legislator for two terms, and has been considered one of the 100 most important names in Brazil in the fight Brazilian states, Chile and Bolivia. He was considered for three consecutive times, the best mayor of Brazil against AIDS. Previously, he served as the Municipal Housing Secretary of São Paulo. As a congressman, by Ibope and Datafolha institutes and indicated by the Foundation City Mayor as one of the best mayors in he was elected in 2006 and reelected in 2010 and 2014, winning for three consecutive times the Congress in the world. Focus prize, which recognizes the work of the best senators and congressmen in Brazil.

Mark C. Elliott is the Vice Provost of International Affairs at Harvard University and the Mark Schwartz Rodrigo Maia has served as President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil since July 2016. Son of Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations the former mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Cesar Maia, Rodrigo Maia was elected in 2010 to his fourth term and the Department of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. An authority on the last four centuries in the House. A skilled articulator, he has been listed since 2002 as one of the 100 most influential of Chinese history, Elliott’s research encompasses the history of relations between China and its nomadic parliamentarians of the National Congress, according to a survey of the Inter-Union Department of frontier. A graduate of Yale (BA 1981 summa cum laude, MA 1984), Elliott earned his Ph.D. in History at Parliamentary Advisory (DIAP). Once elected federal deputy in 1998, he participated in the main the University of California, Berkeley and joined the Harvard faculty in 2003. committees of the House and from 2007 until 2011 he held the presidency of the Democrats Party – DEM.

Rodrigo R. Soares is the Lemann Professor of Brazilian Public Policy and International and Public Affairs Martin Carnoy is the Vida Jacks Professor of Education at the Stanford University School of Education. at Columbia University. Professor Soares’ research centers around development economics, ranging from Prior to going to Stanford, he was a Research Associate in Economics, Foreign Policy Division, at the labor, human capital, and demographic economics to crime. His work has appeared in various scientific Brookings Institution. He is also a consultant to the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Asian journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Development Bank, UNESCO, IEA, OECD, UNICEF, International Labour Office. Dr. Carnoy is a labor Economics, and Journal of Development Economics. Prior to joining Columbia, Soares taught at the Sao economist with a special interest in the relation between the economy and the educational system. Paulo School of Economics-FGV, PUC-Rio, the University of Maryland, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

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 Ruben Oliven is a Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto from 2011 to 2014. She was Executive Director of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) from 2011 Alegre, Brazil and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. During the 2016-17 academic year, he to 2014. She is an economic demographer who focuses on household decisions. Her research areas include is serving as the Lemann Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. children’s schooling, child labor, household consumption, and international migration. He received his Ph.D. from the University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science) and was a visiting professor at several universities, including the University of California at Berkeley, Dartmouth College, Brown University and the University of Paris. Osmar Serraglio currently serves as the President of the Constitution and Justice and Citizenship Commission (CCJC) of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies and is now in his fifth term in office.A lawyer and a university professor, Osmar joined the Judiciary Reform, the new Civil Code, the Provisional Scott Mainwaring is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazil Studies and the Faculty Co-chair Measures and the new Internal Regulation Commissions of the Federal Chamber and was the Rapporteur of of the Harvard Brazil Studies Program. He joined the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School in 2016 the Mensalão investigation. 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 Paula Louzano is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of São Paulo School of Education and a Visiting Church in Latin America. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. 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 Sergio Silva do Amaral is the Brazilian Ambassador to the United States. Ambassador Amaral received teacher education and professional development, as well as curricular policies. 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 Paulo Blikstein is Assistant Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and the Computer Brazilian government, such as Vice-Minister for the Environment, Secretary of Social Communication and Science Department, where he directs the Transformative Learning Technologies Lab (TLTL) and co- Spokesman for President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. He was also Minister of Development, Industry directs the Lemann Center for Educational Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Brazil. Blikstein’s research and Foreign Trade, and Chairman of the Foreign Trade Council of Ministers (CAMEX) and the Brazilian focuses on how new technologies can deeply transform the learning of STEM. He creates and researches Development Bank (BNDES). cutting-edge educational technologies, such as computer modeling, robotics, physical computing, tangible user interfaces, and digital fabrication to create hands-on, constructionist learning environments. 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 isA 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.