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About the speaker

Dr Jorge Arbache

Jorge Arbache holds a degree in Law and a Ph.D. in Economics. He served as Vice President for the Private Sector at the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) and as Secretary of International Affairs at Brazil’s Ministry of Planning, Development and Management. Prior to that, he headed the Ministry’s Economic Advisory Board.

Arbache has extensive experience in the public and private sectors, as well as in international organizations. He is currently a Professor of Economics at the University of Brasília.

Before joining the Ministry of Planning, he served as Senior Economic Adviser to the President of the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) and as a Senior Economist at the World Bank in Washington, DC. His research and policy interests focus on economic growth strategies and sectoral policies, including international trade, investment, productivity, competitiveness, innovation, the digital economy, and the development of industry and services. He is the author of four books and dozens of scientific articles published in leading international academic journals.

About the chair

Dr Andreza Aruska Souza de Santos

Andreza completed her PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, and holds a master’s degree in social sciences jointly awarded by the University of Freiburg, JNU in Delhi, and the University of KwaZulu Natal, in Durban. Andreza completed her bachelor’s degree in political science at the University of Brasilia.

Having studied in Brazil, Germany, South Africa, India and the UK, Andreza writes about Brazilian politics and city governance comparatively. Before joining King's, she was a lecturer at the University of Oxford and at Oxford she directed the Brazilian Studies Programme (2018-2023). Before that, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford’s School of Anthropology, where she worked at the Urban Transformations portfolio (ESRC).

She has previously worked at Brazil’s Ministry of Social Development, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Vienna), at the Indian Embassy in Brazil, and at the Brazilian Confederation of Municipalities.