Visiting Fellow: Professor Eduardo Diniz, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil
Hosted By: Professor João Porto de Albuquerque
Date of Visit: 1 July 2022 to 1 July 2023
Purpose of Visit: The objective of the visiting professorship is to develop an international partnership dedicated to economic recovery focusing on local development and reduction of inequalities in a post-COVID world. By using qualitative, quantitative and geo-localized data, Eduardo, together with researchers from the Urban Big Data Centre and the College of Social Sciences, aims to produce operational knowledge to support evidence-based public policies that will support city managers and other urban actors to make decisions on the regulatory, operational and political fronts to develop effective and well-funded initiatives to promote economic, social and environmental development. His main focus during this period is the study of municipal cash transfer programmes in the context of universal basic income.
Bio: Eduardo was Professor at the Business School of São Paulo at Fundação Getulio Vargas (EAESP-FGV) from 1999 to 2016, he was chief editor of RAE, Revista de Administração de Empresas, GVexecutivo and GVcasos, from January 2009 to December 2015 and Head of the Department of Technology and Data Science (TDS) from 2018 to 2021.
Eduardo graduated in Electrical Engineering, with emphasis on electronics, at the São Carlos School of Engineering USP (1983), and holds a Master in Business Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas - SP (1994) and Ph.D. in Business Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas - SP (2000).
He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (1996-98), HEC Montréal (2007) and Erasmus University (2016-17). He is a Bellagio Fellow, appointed by the Rockefeller Foundation in 2014, and a researcher at the Center for Microfinance and Financial Inclusion at FGV, GVcemif since 2007.
His research interests include technology applications and impacts on banks, government and society, and has published numerous academic papers on financial inclusion at international conferences and top journals. His research work was funded by international agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), the International Development Research Center (IDRC), the World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. He is often invited to participate as a guest in international events organised by the World Bank, central banks and bank federations in Brazil, and other countries.