Tomás Bril Mascarenhas (Ph.D., MA in Political Science, University of California-Berkeley; BA, University of Buenos Aires) is Principal Researcher at the Argentine think tank Fundar. He specializes in the comparative political economy of development. 

He has been an Assistant Professor at the School of Politics and Government, National University of San Martín (UNSAM, Argentina), a Visiting Professor at Torcuato Di Tella University (UTDT), and a visiting researcher at the Catholic University in Chile, the State University of Rio de Janeiro and the University of Sao Paulo.  He was Fundar's founding Director of Productive Development (2020-2025).

Tomás was a Fulbright Fellow in 2010-2012, a Simpson Memorial Fellow in 2013-2014, and his research has been funded by CONICET, UBACyT, MinCyT (Argentina), CAPES (Brazil), and the Tinker Foundation.

Between 2007 and 2009 he had a full-time appointment at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He has been a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank, UNDP's Latin American Regional Programme, CIPPEC (Argentina), and the Government of the City of Buenos Aires.

Tomás authored the book How States Shape Markets in Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).  His articles have been published in Studies in Comparative International Development, Desarrollo Económico, Brazilian Political Science Review, Revista de Ciencia Política (Chile), Latin American Politics and Society, Business and Politics, and the Journal of Development Studies, among other journals.

Contact: tombril@gmail.com