Bruno Theodoro Luciano is a Teaching Fellow in Public Policy and European Studies at the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS), University of Warwick, and holds a PhD in Political Science and International Studies from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He has research experience in comparative regionalism, inter-regionalism and regional integration, with particular focus on the European Union, South American and African regionalisms. He is currently developing research on populism in Europe and Latin America and its impact on the political and trade relations between the two regions.