Oliver Stuenkel is an assistant professor of international relations at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo and a fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. His research focuses on rising powers, specifically on Brazil’s and India’s foreign policy and their impact on global governance. His work experience includes teaching assistantships at Harvard University and projects with the United Nations in Brazil, the German Technical Cooperation in Fiji and the Mercosur Secretariat in Uruguay. He was a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo and at the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He was also a school teacher in rural Rajasthan, India.

His commentaries have been published by the Global Times, Sanlian Lifeweek Magazine (China), Today’s Zaman (Turkey), Deutsche Welle, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Germany), Mail and Guardian (South Africa), Times of India, The Statesman, Deccan Chronicle, The Asian Age, Pragati, The Indian Foreign Affairs Journal (India), the EU Observer (Belgium), World Politics Review (United States), Valor Econômico, Correio Braziliense, Folha de São Paulo, O Globo, Política Externa, Contexto Internacional (Brazil), Buenos Aires Herald (Argentina), Al-Jazeera (Qatar), and the Portuguese Journal of International Affairs.

Oliver holds a BA from the Universidad de Valencia in Spain, a Master in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he was a McCloy Scholar, and a PhD in political science from the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany.

Languages: German, Dutch, English, Hindi, Urdu, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese