Advisory Board
The advisory board, consisting of leading scholars from Brazilian and international institutions, guides the study at each phase of its development and implementation. The knowledge and experience of the advisory board’s cross-disciplinary membership have been essential in designing our research questions and instruments, and have positioned us to engage a variety of pressing debates from across the social sciences.
Co-Chairs
Aldaíza Sposati
Aldaíza Sposati is a full professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, where she coordinates NEPSAS, the Center for Studies in Security and Social Assistance. She holds a Master’s and PhD in Social Work from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and was a postdoc at the Faculty of Economics of the Universidade de Coimbra. She has a large theoretical and practical knowledge of social protection policy, with an emphasis on social assistance and social management. She was a researcher on the Territorial Metrics of Cities initiative (1995-2018) and coordinator of the CAPES-COFECUB research project, “Protege Vínculos” (2012-2015), with families from the Bolsa Família Program in São Paulo. She was Public Manager of the Municipal Secretary for Regional Administrative Administration (1989-1990) and of Social Assistance (2002-2004) and was a member of the São Paulo city council (1993-2004) and an advisor to the city of São Paulo (2013-2016).
Eduardo Suplicy
Eduardo Suplicy is an economist, entrepreneur and professor. He is one of the most well-known politicians in Brazil for his 40 years of public life and for having served in various instances of Parliament: he was a state deputy, federal senator for three terms and twice a São Paulo city council member. He holds a BA in business from the School of Business Administration of the Fundação Getulio Vargas and a Master's in economics from Michigan State University. In the 1970s, he returned to the United States for another period of studies and research for his doctorate, in Michigan and at Stanford, where he was a visiting professor. He is full professor at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas, in addition to being an economics editor at Visão magazine. He has contributed articles to the newspaper, Ultima Hora, and was a writer and analyst of economic affairs at Folha de S. Paulo. Suplicy is the author of the Federal Law 10.835 (2004), which instituted a national universal and unconditional Citizen's Basic Income in stages, starting with those most in need. For his struggle on behalf of basic income in Brazil and worldwide, he was granted the Honoris Causa degree from the Catholic University of Louvain, in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia. He is currently the honorary president of the Basic Income Earth Network and of the Brazilian Basic Income Network.
Members
Letícia Bartholo
Letícia Bartholo holds a BA in Sociology from the Universidade de Brasília and a Master’s in Demography from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas. She is a permanent federal servant and has been a specialist in public policy and management since 2002. Between 2002 and 2016, Letícia worked on the management of Brazilian national conditional cash transfer programmes (including Bolsa Família). As the Director of the Single Registry of Beneficiaries (2009-2012), she was responsible for the national implementation of its seventh iteration. As the National Secretary for Citizenship and Income (2012-2016), she was mainly responsible for coordinating a national training strategy for municipal and state managers regarding Bolsa Família and the Single Registry.
Flávio Eiró
Flávio Eiró has a PhD in sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France), and is currently professor at the University of Groningen (Netherlands). He has published several articles in international journals based on his ethnographic research about the implementation of the Bolsa Familia program. Combining sociological and anthropological approaches, he presently works on topics including public policy, bureaucracy, electoral politics and identity issues.
Thomas Fujiwara
Thomas Fujiwara is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton University, and the Associate Director of Princeton’s Brazil LAB. His research examines the role of political factors in shaping public policy, especially in developing countries. It seeks to understand why elected officials fail to provide adequate services and how the design of the electoral process can influence policymaking. He has also studied voter behavior more broadly, including the role of strategic coordination by voters in elections, the role of habit in voter turnout, and how voters respond to campaign messages in field experiments in Benin and the Philippines. He holds a BA and MA in Economics from the Universidade deSão Paulo and a PhD in Economics from the University of British Columbia (2011).
Eliana La Ferrara
Eliana La Ferrara is the Fondazione Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi Chair in Development Economics at Università Bocconi. She holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University (1999) and a MSc in Economics and Social Sciences from Università Bocconi (1993). Her research covers topics related to development and political economics, and has been published in leading academic journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and the Journal of the European Economic Association. She is the recipient of various research grants from the European Research Council (ERC) and the European Commission.
Gabriela Lotta
Gabriela Lotta is a professor and researcher in Public Administration and Government at the Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo, and a professor at the Escola Nacional de Administração Pública (ENAP). She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Universidade de São Paulo. . She is also a researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM) in São Paulo, coordinator of the Bureaucracy Studies Center (NEB),coordinator of the thematic area “State and Public Policies” of the Brazilian Association of Political Science (ABCP), and research director of the National Association of Teaching and Research of the Public Field (ANEP / CP). Her research focuses mainly on the areas of public policy, bureaucracy, implementation, and government management.
Jimmy Medeiros
Jimmy Medeiros holds a PhD in Public Policy, Strategies and Development from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He is currently a researcher and professor at the Fundação Getulio Vargas, teaching social sciences for undergraduate students, as well for students from the Masters in Cultural Assets and Social Projects, and for PhD students at the PPHPBC/FGV/CPDOC. He has experience in sociology, public policy evaluation, and the use of quantitative methodologies in the social sciences.
Jonathan Morduch
Jonathan Morduch is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. Morduch's research focuses on finance, poverty, and inequality. He is a founder and Executive Director of the NYU Financial Access Initiative. Morduch is the author with Rachel Schneider of The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty (Princeton 2017; usfinancialdiaries.org) and co-author of Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day (Princeton 2009) and The Economics of Microfinance (MIT Press 2010). Morduch has taught on the Economics faculty at Harvard, and has held visiting positions at Stanford, Princeton, Hitotsubashi University and the University of Tokyo. He received a BA from Brown, Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard, and an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Brussels for his work on microfinance.
Roldán Muradian
Roldán Muradian holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He is Professor of Economics at the Universidade Federal Fluminense. His research deals with a wide range of issues in the fields of natural resources governance, institutional economics and behavioural economics. Based on an analysis of citations at the Web of Science platform made by the British consultancy Clarivate Analytics, Roldán was considered one of the most influential researchers in the world.
Mani Tebet
Mani Tebet holds a PhD in Sociology from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, professor at the Graduate Program in Social Sciences at the same university and a permanent professor of the Graduate Program in Public Policies in Human Rights at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. She published an innovative book on Bolsa Família, gender issues and morality.
Philippe Van Parijs
Philippe Van Parijs holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the Université Catholique de Louvain and a PhD in Philosophy from Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a member of Belgium's Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts and of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds an honorary doctorate from Université Laval. In 2001, he was awarded the Francqui Prize, Belgium's most prestigious scientific prize. In 1986, he was one of the founders of the Basic Income European Network (BIEN), which in 2004 became the Basic Income Earth Network, and he chairs its International Board.
Barbara Weinstein
Barbara Weinstein is Silver Professor of History at New York University and past president of the American Historical Association. Her research interests span postcolonial Latin America, Brazil, labor, slavery and emancipation, gender and sexuality, and race and national identity. Her publications include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920 (1983), For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo (1996), and The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil (2015). Her research has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She holds a PhD in History from Yale University.
Frederick Wherry
Frederick Wherry is a Townsend Martin, Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and Director of the Dignity and Debt Network. He is co-author of Credit Where It’s Due: Rethinking Financial Citizenship, co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Consumption, and editor of the four-volume Sage Encyclopedia of Economics and Society. He was the 2018 President of the Social Science History Association. Before joining Princeton he was a Professor of Sociology at Yale University and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology. He has also served on the faculty of the University of Michigan and Columbia University. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his MPA from The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and his PhD in Sociology from Princeton.