Master's and PhD in Finance and Economics, EAESP- Fundação Getúlio Vargas; completed post-doctoral programmes, Harvard, US and Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels. Formerly: Visiting Scholar, Interamerican Development Bank, Washington DC; 1995- 2010, Economic Adviser, Mission of Brazil to the WTO; seven years as Chair, WTO Committee of Rules of Origin; Invited Professor, Sciences-Po, IELPO-Barcelona and IEE-Lisbon, lecturing on trade negotiations. Currently, Professor, School of Economics, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Head of the Center on Global Trade and Investments, Holder WTO Chair in Brazil, President Brazilian Committee on TBT.