Prof. Eduardo Viola
Institute of International Relations
University of Brasília

Dr. Eduardo Viola is currently a Full-Professor at the Institute of International Relations, University of Brasilia, Brazil. Professor Viola holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (1979-82). He has been a Visiting Professor in several universities: the University of Texas, Austin, National University of Costa Rica, University of San Martin, University of Georgetown, Institute for International Studies and Department of Political Science, Stanford University, Department of International Relations and Center for Latin American Research, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Professor Viola’s Pos-Doctoral training was in International Political Economy and Global Environmental Change in the University of Colorado at Boulder (1989-90) and he has long been involved in human dimensions of global environmental change research. He was a member of the Open Meeting International Scientific Steering Committee for the Fourth OM (Rio de Janeiro 2001), the Fifth (Montreal 2003) and the Sixth (Bonn 2005) in which he was co-chair. Besides, he has been member of the Committee on Global Environmental Change of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (1997-2004). He’s current research project is on "The International Political Economy of Climate Change in South America" which is strongly focused on issues related to Earth System Governance.