Oliver Stuenkel
Visiting Scholar, Belfer Center
Oliver Stuenkel is a Professor of International Relations at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in São Paulo, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC and a visiting scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. He is also a columnist for Foreign Policy, Americas Quarterly and Estado de São Paulo, a regular commentator on Brazilian television and radio, and one of Latin America’s leading foreign policy analysts. Stuenkel advises some of Latin America’s major companies on geopolitical risk.
His research focuses on geopolitics and global order, Brazilian foreign policy, Latin American politics and emerging powers. He is the author of several books about geopolitics, including The BRICS and the Future of Global Order (Lexington) and the Post-Western World: How Emerging Powers Are Remaking Global Order (Polity), both of which have been translated into several languages. His articles have appeared in many of the leading journals in international relations, including International Affairs, Global Governance, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Global R2P and Conflict, Security and Development.
Stuenkel holds a B.A. from the Universidad de Valencia in Spain, a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a PhD in political science from the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. He speaks Portuguese, Spanish, English, German and French.
