Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira is a faculty member of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV/EAESP and FGV/EBAPE) and also teaches at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPEAD-UFRJ), Fudan University (Shanghai) and Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar (UASB) in Quito, Ecuador. He is visiting researcher at the United Nations University (UNU-IIGH) in Kuala Lumpur and the MIT Joint Program for Science and Policy for Global Change (USA). His research examines patterns of governance, institution building and policy implementation at different levels, looking at how global and national institutions are interlinked to local governance and action, and vice-versa. He held positions of Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Director of UNU-IAS in Japan between 2009 and 2015 where he coordinated the Sustainable Urban Futures research program. In 2015-2016, he was MIT-UTM Visiting Scholar in Malaysia and Cambridge, USA. Previously, he worked as faculty member at the University College London (UK) and the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He has published ten books and a number of articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Public Administration and Development (PAD, Wiley-Blackwell). Jose holds a Ph.D. in Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.