Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira is affiliated to the Institute for Global Public Policy and faculty member at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV/EAESP and FGV/EBAPE) in Brazil. He has extensive experience in interdisciplinary research projects, particularly involving the developing world. He has over 25 years of experience in universities, businesses, think-tanks, and governmental and international agencies in research, teaching, training and academic management. His work is multi and interdisciplinary involving applied social sciences and their links to the natural and health sciences and engineering. His research and policy interests concentrate in themes around sustainable development studying the patterns of governance, institution building and policy implementation at different levels, looking at how global and national institutions are interlinked to governance and action. His experience comprises research, consultancy and policy work in more than 20 countries in all continents. He held positions of Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Director of UN University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) in Japan between 2009 and 2015. Previously, he worked as faculty member at the University College London (UK) and the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) as a Marie Curie Fellow, and as an instructor, consultant and researcher for several organizations. He has published more than ten books and 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Public Administration and Development (PAD, Wiley) and member of several editorial boards. He holds a degree in Engineering from the Aeronautical Technological Institute (ITA), Brazil, a Master’s Degree in Regional and Environmental Planning from Hokkaido University, Japan and a Ph.D. in Planning from MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Among top 2% of most influential researchers worldwide.

RESEARCH INTERESTSSustainable development, Energy, Environment, Cities, Patterns of governance, institution building and policy implementation at different levels

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