Political Scientist from the University of Brasília, Ph.D. in International Relations from Lancaster University (United Kingdom), International Advisory Board Member at the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI), and Editor-in-Chief of CEBRI-Journal.

From 2016 to 2018, he served as Special Secretary for Strategic Affairs at the Presidency of the Republic, Member of the Board of Ministers of CAMEX, and President of the National Commission on Population and Development (CNPD).

From 2013 to 2015, he was a Research Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, a Research Fellow at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies (2015-2016), and an Associate of the Iran Project at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (2016-2017). Between 2019 and 2021, he was a Researcher for the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Shiism Grant, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and an Associate of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences from September 2022 to June 30, 2024.

From 2014 to 2016, he was a Senior Associate Fellow and non-resident at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He has authored opinion pieces, book chapters, and policy analyses in policy journals and academic publications, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The National Interest, Harvard International Review, Global Discourse (Routledge), Política Externa, Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, and CEBRI-Journal.

He was a columnist for the Folha de São Paulo newspaper (2014-2016) and Revista Época (2019-2021). He has been honored by various institutions, including the Order of Rio Branco, the Order of Naval Merit, the Order of Military Merit, the Order of Aeronautical Merit, and the Barão de Tamandaré Medal. He is fluent in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic.