Carla de Paiva Bezerra

Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services | Brasília, Brazil

Carla has worked as a practitioner and a scholar on participatory democracy in Brazil. She is a member of the federal civil service as a specialist in public policy and government management, with more than 13 years of experience in the public sector. Currently, she is serving as Special Advisor at the Minister Cabinet at the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services in the Federal Government of Brazil. Previously, she served as Director of Digital Participation at the General Secretariat of the Brazilian Presidency of the Republic, being responsible for the Brasil Participativo Platform, an award winning digital participation innovation, with more than 1.6 million users in Brazil.

Carla received her PhD in Political Science from the University of São Paulo (USP) and a Bachelor of Law from the University of Brasília (UnB). As a researcher, Carla has worked at IPEA (Institute for Economic Applied Research), a think tank of the Brazilian government, where she coordinated the Civil Society Organizations Map. She is also a collaborating researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (Cebrap) and a visiting researcher at the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests include democracy, participation, public policies and institutional change in Brazil and Latin America. She has articles published in Brazilian and international journals such as Critical Policy Studies, Brazilian Political Science Review, Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais and Georgetown Journal of International Affairs.