Leonardo Burlamaqui is a Brazilian political economist specializing in innovation, competition, macro-finance, development strategy, and institutional change. His work integrates Schumpeter, Keynes, Minsky, and Polanyi to analyze the political economy of innovation and the State, Asian Capitalism, contemporary China, and capitalist transformations in the 21 first Century. He is Professor at UFRJ, UERJ, Research Scholar at the Levy Institute, and Senior Fellow at CEBRI. From 2006 to 2014 he served as Senior Program Officer at the Ford Foundation in New York, directing the global initiative on Reforming Financial Governance.

Chair holder (Contemporary China) at School of Advanced Studies at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (CBAE/UFRJ)

Research Scholar, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College (New York)

Senior Fellow, Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)

Member, International Joseph Schumpeter Society