Fernando Brancoli

Assistant Professor of International Security and Geopolitics at the Institute of International Relations and Defense at the University of Rio de Janeiro (IRID - UFRJ). He is also a Professor at the MBA in International Relations at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), in São Paulo, Brazil. He holds a Phd in International Relations at the University of São Paulo (San Tiago Dantas Program), Brazil, with a Double Degree at the University of California - Santa Barbara (UCSB, USA). He is Visiting Scholar of the University of California - Santa Barbara (USA) and at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris (France). He is an alumni at the Asian Forum on Global Governance (AFGG - India). Before he began his academic career, he worked as a journalist in Brazil and a conflict-resolution specialist in Humanitarian NGOs, with focus on the Middle East and North Africa.