Professor of International Relations. Ph.D. in International Relations and Master in Law. Specialist in Geopolitics - Geneva Institute of Geopolitics, Switzerland; Specialist in Politics and International Relations - São Paulo School of Sociology and Politics Foundation (FESPSP). Certificates and extensions in politics, economics, and International Relations from Hunan University, Tsinghua University, Harvard, and Sciences Po. Secretary - Research Committee on Asian and Pacific Studies at the International Political Science Association - IPSA. Guest Editor of the Macau Journal of Brazilian Studies. Researcher at the Center for Global Trade and Investment Studies at the Getulio Vargas Foundation – Brazil (FGV-SP). Former Legal Counsel for the Bank of China-Brazil and the São Paulo Stock Exchange (B3). Senior Fellow and Head of the Geopolitical Analysis Center at Observa China.

Areas of Interest and Research: Chinese Currency and the Renminbi Offshore Centers/Institutions and Institutional Bypass/Brazil-China Relations/International Security and China's Position/International Trade and the Trade War between China and the United States/Geopolitics involving China and its relations with the Middle East, India, and other countries in East and Southeast Asia.