Director-General, BRICS Policy Center
Paulo Esteves is Director-General for the Rio-based BRICS Policy Center. He earned his PhD in Political Science from IUPERJ in 2003. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen, a lecturer at the Institute of International Relations (IRI, PUC-Rio), and consulted for the UNDP and the state government of Minas Gerais. Esteves was elected member of the executive board ot eh International Studies Association, and has edited (in Portugese) multiple books on international institutions and international relations.
Esteves' current research focuses on the convergence between the fields of international security, humanitarianism, and development, as well as the participation of Brazil and other emerging and peripheral countries in the new architecture of international security.