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We are delighted to announce that Carlos Pereira has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Guillermo O'Donnell Award for Latin American Scholars. Prof. Pereira, Professor at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV EBAPE) in Rio de Janeiro, will deliver an award lecture titled at the 28th ��ʿ����World Congress of Political Science in Seoul on 13 July 2025.

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The ��ʿ����Guillermo O’Donnell Award for Latin-American Scholars was launched at the 2023 ��ʿ����World Congress in Buenos Aires to pay tribute to the remarkable legacy of Guillermo O’Donnell, IPSA’s Past President and one of Latin America’s most prominent political scientists. Thanks to the generous support of its founder, Prof. Gabriela Ippolito-O’Donnell, this commemorative award will be attributed biennially to a Latin American scholar residing in the region who has contributed innovative research to political science. 

Carlos Pereira is a Professor at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV EBAPE), Rio de Janeiro, a weekly op-ed columnist for the newspaper Estado de São Paulo (Estadão), and a Senior Fellow at the Brazilian Center for International Relations (). He holds a PhD in political science from the New School / New York University and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Oxford. 

He was a Visiting Professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2022-2023); Edward Laroque Tinker Visiting Professor at Stanford University (2017); Visiting Scholar at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin (2016-2017); Visiting Fellow in Foreign Policy and Global Economics at the Brookings Institution (2010-2011); and Resident Fellow at the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation, Italy (2008). He also served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University (2005-2011) and as a Professor at the São Paulo School of Economics at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV EESP). He worked as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of São Paulo (USP) and at Colby College in Maine, USA. 

He has extensively published in several academic refereed journals, including the Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Government and Opposition, Governance, Regulation & Governance, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Journal of Democracy, Latin American Politics and Society, among others. He is the author of four books: (2006, The World Bank Press), (2013, Palgrave Macmillan), (2016, Princeton University Press), and (2024, Companhia das Letras).