Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira is the Chair in Climate Change Governance and Global Development at the Global Development Institute (GDI), the University of Manchester. He is also Professor of Public Administration at Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV EAESP), Brazil, and Visiting Chair Professor at the Institute for Global Public Policy (IGPP), Fudan University, China. His research and policy interests concentrate in the political economy of governance, institution building and policy implementation at different levels, looking at how global and local institutions are interlinked to steer governance and action. His experience comprises work in more than 20 countries in all continents. He has been an instructor, consultant and researcher for several organizations such as different United Nations agencies, the OECD, the World Bank, sub-national and national governments, and various NGOs and small and large firms. Previously, he held positions of Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Director of the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) in Japan and as faculty member  at the University College London (UK) and the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) as an European Commission’s Marie Curie Fellow. He has published twelve books and more than 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has served as a member of several journal editorial boards and advisory panels, such as Sao Paulo State Research Foundation, Belmont Forum and Wellcome Trust. He was invited to be a Coordinating Lead Author of the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He holds a Ph.D. in Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.