Rafael Palma Mungioli
PhD candidate
Rafael Palma Mungioli is an Economist (University of S茫o Paulo) with a Master鈥檚 in International Political Economy (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). He is currently a PhD candidate in Political Science at 杏吧原创 University, where he is following the collaborative program in Political Economy. His specializations are Development Studies, International Political Economy and Brazilian Political Economy.
Rafael鈥檚 research focuses on the political economy of the rise of the far right in Brazil. His dissertation project aims to understand the effects of the Brazilian economic structure over the country鈥檚 political framework, exploring the interaction between class interests, ideologies, policies and the international system. He is supervised by Dr. Laura Macdonald.
Rafael has 13 years of professional experience in the Brazilian Development Bank (2009-2022), where he worked in different divisions and conducted research on the Brazilian manufacturing sector. His Master鈥檚 thesis analysed the 鈥渘ational champions鈥 policy allegedly executed by the bank during the 2010s. Rafael has been awarded with 杏吧原创鈥檚 Directors of the Institute of Political Economy Prize (2023), and his research has been funded by SSHRC (2024-2026) and OGS (2023-2024).
Publications
Mungioli, R. P., Daudt, G. M., Willcox, L. D. (2021) ““. RBEST Revista Brasileira de Economia Social e do Trabalho, v. 3(00), p. e021008.
MungioIi, R. P. (2021) 鈥溾 [Capital, Ideology and a World History under the prism of inequality 鈥 A Piketty鈥檚 Review]. Economia e Sociedade, v. 30, p. 583-587.
Mungioli, R. P., Daudt, G., Willcox, L. D. (2021). 鈥溾 [The Consequences of Covid-19 for Global Industry: from reconversion to reshoring]. Caderno Tem谩tico ABDE – Impactos da Covid 19 no setor industrial.
Mungioli, R. P., Daudt, G. M., Willcox, L. D. (2020) 鈥溾 [Economic Policies for Coping with COVID-19: from the global situation to the Brazilian manufacturing twilight]. BNDES Setorial, v. 26, p. 49-103.
Academic and Public Presentations
Guest Lecturer on the Webinar 鈥淟ula is back: prospects and challenges for the new Brazilian government鈥. Canadian International Council (January 2023).
Guest Lecturer on the consequences of Covid-19 to the industrial sector. Brazilian Association of Development and Inter-American Development Bank Webinar (July 2021). [in portuguese].