Gabriela Spanghero Lotta

Professor of Public Administration and Government at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV). She has been a visiting professor at Oxford (Blavatnik School of Government), Aalborg (Denmark), Konstanz (Germany), Bern (Switzerland), Universidad del Chile, and PUC Peru. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of São Paulo (USP), and a masters and bachelors degree in Public Administration from FGV. She is the coordinator of the Bureaucracy Studies Center (NEB) and co-coordinator of CIPE (Center for the Study of Education Policy Implementation). Faculty member at the National School of Public Administration (ENAP). She is also a researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM) and at the Politics of Inequalities Cluster at the University of Konstanz. She coordinates the Latin American Network of Street-Level Bureaucracy Studies at CLACSO and is vice-chair of RC27 (Structures of Governance) at IPSA. She serves as associate editor of JPART and RAP, and sits on the editorial boards of several international journals. She is a CNPq productivity fellow and a member of the Technical Chamber on State Transformation at the Presidential Council (Conselhão), where she also chaired the working group for the creation of the National Human Rights System. In 2021, she was named one of the worlds 100 most influential academics in government by the organization Apolitical. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)