Oliver Stuenkel is a senior fellow affiliated with the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is also a Fellow at the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School and an associate professor at the School of International Relations at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in São Paulo, Brazil.

His research focuses on geopolitics and the global order, emerging powers, Brazilian foreign policy and Latin American politics and democracy. He is the author of several books on geopolitics, including The BRICS and the Future of Global Order and The Post-Western World, which have been translated into multiple languages. He is also a columnist for Foreign Policy and O Estado de S. Paulo, a commentator on Brazilian television and radio, and one of Latin America’s leading foreign policy analysts.

His articles have been published in major international relations journals, including International Affairs, Global Governance, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Global R2P, and Conflict, Security and Development. He has also written for Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, Financial Times, Global Times, Mail & Guardian, Times of India, The Hindu, Folha de S. Paulo, Valor Econômico, and O Globo. From 2016 to 2021, he was a columnist for El País.

He has been a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo, the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, and the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS) in Rome. Oliver holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Valencia in Spain, a master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Oliver speaks Portuguese, Spanish, English, German, and French. He lives in Washington, DC.