Editorial Board Members

Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira is a faculty member at FGV (Fundação Getulio Vargas), Brazil, and Visiting Chair Professor at the Institute for Global Public Policy (IGPP) of Fudan University, China. He has extensive international experience in teaching, research and academic management in the areas of public and business administration, urban planning and global environmental change. His research and policy interests concentrate in the political economy of governance, institution building and policy implementation at different levels, looking at how global environmental change and local institutions are interlinked to steer governance and action. His experience comprises work in more than 20 countries in all continents. He has been an instructor, consultant and researcher for several organizations such as different United Nations agencies, the OECD, the World Bank, sub-national and national governments, and various NGOs and small and large firms. He held positions of Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Director of the UN University Institute of Advanced Study of Sustainability (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 an EC Marie Curie Fellow. He has published twelve books and more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has served as a member of several journal editorial boards and advisory panels, such as Sao Paulo State Research Foundation, Global Development Institute of the University of Manchester, Belmont Forum and Wellcome Trust.

Development processes; Developing countries; Climate policy; Biodiversity; Local governments