Lúcio Rennó, Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science and Dean of the Graduate School of the University of Brasilia, holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Pittsburgh, and graduated from the University of Brasilia with a bachelor’s degree in political science. From 2004 to 2005, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Stony Brook State University of New York; From 2009 to 2010, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Latin American Institute of the German Center for Global and Regional Studies; From 2005 to 2006, he taught at the Latin American Research Center of the University of Arizona in the United States; From October 2014 to February 2015, she was engaged in Brazilian research at the Latin American Institute of the Free University of Berlin; From 2015 to 2018, she served as the president of Codeplan, the Brazilian Federal District Planning Company. She focused on comparative politics, legislative research and electoral behavior. She has written many books such as Coletânea de Políticas Públicas de Cultura: Práticas e Reflexões, and published academic papers in Latin American Politics And Society, Journal of Latin American Studies, American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, and other journals, For example, Social Context and Campaign Volatility in New Democracy: Networks and Neighborhoods in Brazil’s 2002 Elections Successful re election strategies in Brazil: the electoral impact of distinct institutional incentives, etc.

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