Ana Célia Castro is the Director of the Brazilian College of High Studies (CBAE / Federal University of Rio de Janeiro); she is vice-coordinator of the Graduate Program in Public Policies, Strategies and Development at the Institute of Economics (PPED-IE) at UFRJ; and vice-coordinator of the National Institute of Science and Technology in Public Policies, Strategies and Development (INCT / PPED); member of the board of the Institute for Brazil-China Studies (IBRACH). Her academic interests on the area of interdisciplinarity, with a focus on institutional economics and an emphasis on the following themes: knowledge governance, innovation and intellectual property, comparative state capacities and innovation in agribusiness.
