" Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira is faculty member at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV/EAESP and FGV/EBAPE). He also teaches at the Fudan University (Shanghai) and the Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar (Quito). He is also associated as visiting researcher at the United Nations University (UNU-IIGH) in Kuala Lumpur. His work is multi and interdisciplinary involving applied social sciences and their links with the natural and health sciences and engineering. His academic expertise cuts across different fields including urban studies, planning, environmental policy, development studies, business and society and public administration and management. His research and policy interests concentrate broadly in the area of political economy of sustainable development. He is particularly interested in patterns of governance, institution building and policy implementation at different levels, looking at how global and national institutions are interlinked to local governance and action, and vice-versa. He has carried out policy-oriented empirical research, undertaking quantitative and qualitative analyses of governance involving diverse groups of actors (e.g., different levels of governments, international organisations, NGOs, SMEs, industries), economic sectors, regions of the world and scales (e.g., international, national and local). His experience comprises research, consultancy and policy work in more than 20 countries in all continents. He has recieved Hutchison Medal 2016 from the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IchemE) for the best paper among all seven IchemE journals (Moreno-Peñaranda et al., 2014), selected for the MIT-UTM Visiting Scholar Fellowship, several research grants from different organizations (e.g., ~USD4 million from Ministry of the Environment Japan for a research/capacity building program on urban climate co-benefits , 2010-2014, € 120,000 from AXA Foundation for a research on local governance of climate change, 2013-2015; USD 320,000 from Nansei Sekiyu company for a research on a socio-ecological assessment , 2011). Book Prize Jabuti in Management and Economics, Brazil (2009), Marie Currie Fellowship from the European Commission (2007), MIT-Japan Program Fellowship (1999), Vorhees Scholarship from DUSP/MIT (1995-2000), Japanese Ministry of Education MONBUSHO Scholarship (1992-1995), Honor Student in the Department of Mathematics, Aeronautics Institute of Technology-ITA, Brazil (1989)."

His research and policy interests concentrate broadly in the area of political economy of sustainable development. He is particularly interested in patterns of governance, institution building and policy implementation at different levels, looking at how global and national institutions are interlinked to local governance and action, and vice-versa.