Marina Bolfarine Caixeta is a PhD candidate in Latin-American Studies from Universidade de Brasília (UnB) and a research fellow and member of the management board of ‘Articulação Sul’ (Center for Studies and Articulation of South-South Cooperation). Her academic work and professional career are dedicated to South-South Cooperation through a Southern perspective. She is a member of the Brazilian International Relations Association (ABRI) and of two research groups on decolonizing the International.

Maria do Carmo Rebouças dos Santos is a professor at Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia, Brazil. She has a PhD in Development, Society, and International Cooperation from the University of Brasilia. She is a researcher and member of the Management Board of the Center for Studies and Articulation of South-South Cooperation, Associate Researcher of the National Institute of Studies and Research of Guinea-Bissau and member of the Latin-American Studies Association (LASA). She is the author of the book Guinea-Bissau: from colonial independence to dependence on international development cooperation (2019).