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Mathias De Alencastro
Director of Macroeconomics and International Relations, Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada

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DPhil (Oxford, 2014), MPhil (Sorbonne Paris-IV, 2009). Mathias has served as international advisor to the Secretariat of Strategic Affairs of the Presidency, special advisor for International Relations at São Paulo´s City Hall, and is currently the Director of Macroeconomics and International Relations of the Instituto de Pesquisa e Economia Aplicada (Ipea), the federal government's internal research centre. His academic research focuses on the politics of the mining sector in Angola and Mozambique, as well as Brazil-Africa since 2002. 

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