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Assistant Professor at the School of Economics, Business and Accounting at the University of São Paulo (FEA-USP). I hold a PhD in Public Administration and Government from FGV EAESP, an MSc in Political Science from the Universidade de São Paulo, and a BA in Social Sciences from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.
Previously, I worked as a Lecturer at the São Paulo School of Business Administration FGV EAESP (1º/2025), a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at IDHEAP – Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (2024–2025), and a Visiting Researcher at Harvard University (2022–2023). My work has been recognized by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA - Founders’ Fellow), the American Political Science Association (APSA - Lowi Policy Studies Journal Best Article Award), the Public Management Research Association (Camilla Stivers Award), and FGV EAESP (Research and Publications Award).
My main research interests include organizational behavior; behavioral public administration; motivation and well-being at work; change and innovation; collaborative networks.
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Selected work in progress:
Navigating Challenging Settings: Bureaucrats’ Policy Entrepreneurship and Divergence Practices within Brazil’s Environmental and Indigenist Agencies
Speaking Up in Bureaucracies: Organizational Factors Shaping Employee Voice with Maeva Sanchez, Samuel Pacht, Guillaume Revillod, Isabelle Caron, David Giauque
Ethical transgressions and moral courage in bureaucracies under pressure under Trump and Bolsonaro with Jaime Kucinskas (working paper avaiable here)
Do Organizational Factors Matter for Bureaucrats' Responses to Democratic Backsliding? Evidence from a Survey Experiment" with Gabriela Lotta and Gustavo Tavares.
The Organizational Dynamics of Bureaucratic Resistance to Undemocratic Pressures: A Conjoint Experiment in Brazil with Gabriela Lotta, Luciana Cingolani, João Guedes-Neto.
Mnemonic Strategies of Resistance: Environmental Analysts Resisting Bolsonaro with Amon Narciso de Barros, Gabriela Lotta, Alexandra Bristow.
Unforging Autonomy: Political Interference on the Bureaucracy in a Context of Democratic Backsliding with Gabriela Lotta, Katherine Bersch, Kutsal Yesilkagit.
Together it is possible to go further: Brazilian health inter-municipal consortia as collaborative governance to fight Covid-19 with Eduardo Grin, Fernando Abrucio, Ricardo Gomes.
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