Senior Fellow at the Brazilian Center of International Relations (CEBRI). Carlos Pereira is a Full Professor at the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV-EBAPE) in Rio de Janeiro and a columnist for the Estado de São Paulo newspaper. 

He is a Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Pereira has a PhD in Political Science from the New School/New York University and a postdoctorate degree from the University of Oxford. 

He was Edward Laroque Tinker Visiting Professor at Stanford University; Visiting Scholar of the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin; Visiting Fellow in Foreign Policy and the Global Economy at Brookings Institution; and Resident Fellow of the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation, Italy.  

He was also Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University; Full Professor at the São Paulo School of Economics at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV EESP); Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of São Paulo (USP) and at Colby College-Maine, USA; and Adjunct Researcher at the Department of Social Sciences at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. 

He has published in several national and international journals and has written three books: 1) “Regulatory Governance in Infrastructure Industries” (The World Bank Press); 2) “Making Brazil Work: Checking the President in a Multiparty System,” New York: Palgrave-McMillan; and 3) “Brazil in Transition: Beliefs, Leadership and Institutional Change,” Princeton University Press.