Ana Arroio has joined the GEG team as an Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow to work on research related to innovation, global knowledge flows and governance. She is currently based at the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. Her research interests include industrial innovation, National Innovation Systems, negotiation processes, institutional and technological capabilities, the knowledge economy and power. She holds a DPhil in Science and Technology Policy from the University of Sussex, Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), an MPhil in International Relations from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Instituto de Relações Internacionais (IRI), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and a B.A. in Mass Communication from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Other academic activities include work as Research Associate with RedeSist, of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Economics Institute. Ana is on a leave of absence from the Federation of Industries of Rio de Janeiro – FIRJAN, where she is Manager of Innovation and Technological Development.

Recent publications include “Development, innovation and public policy: The Brazilian Experience in Support of Micro and Small Enterprise” (BRICS Working Paper, UFRJ: available at http://brics.redesist.ie.ufrj.br/nt_brics.php?projeto=br11, 2007), “Sistemas de inovação e desenvolvimento: mitos e realidade da economia do conhecimento global”, with Helena Lastres and Jose Cassiolato in Conhecimento, Sistemas de Inovação e Desenvolvimento. (Editora da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2005), “Missing Concepts Within the Missing Links: Intermediation and Satellite Network Deployment”, in Mansell, R. (ed.), Inside the Communication Revolution: Evolving Patterns of Social and Technical Interaction, (Oxford University Press, 2002) and a contribution to Mansell, R. and Wehn, U. (eds.) Knowledge Societies: Information Technology for Development. United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development. (Oxford University Press, 1998).

She is on the Editorial Board of the Revista de Administração Contemporânea – RAC, CEPPAD/UFPR, and of the Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração, ANPAD, from 2004. She speaks Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.