Ricardo Oliveira dos Santos is a Lecturer and Deputy Coordinator for Undergraduate Program at the Institute of International Relations, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (IRI/PUC-Rio), Brazil. He holds a PhD in International Political Economy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro where he held a CNPq Scholarship (2014-2018). Ricardo was a Visiting Research Fellow at Brown University Political Science/International Relations Department (2012). He worked as an Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Political Science Department (2014-2016).