André de Mello e Souza is a Tenured Researcher and Policy Analyst at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), a Brazilian governmental think tank. He is currently Head of the International Policy Center for Inclusive Development. He earned a Master’s and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University, United States. Mello e Souza has previously worked as a Professor of International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil, and at the Brazilian Institute of Capital Markets (IBMEC). He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Mello e Souza is one of the founding members of the Network of Southern Think-Tanks’ (NeST) global, Brazilian and Latin American chapters. His main areas of research include the global governance of health, intellectual property rights and international development cooperation; as well as international private aid and South-South development cooperation, with a country focus on the BRICS. He is one of the authors of ‘The Politics of Private Aid’, published in International Organization, of ‘The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda’ and several articles and book contributions on these topics.
