Leany  Barreiro Lemos has joined the GEG Team as an Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow. She holds a Masters in Political Science and a Doctorate in Comparative Studies on the Americas, both granted by the University of Brasilia, Brazil. At GEG, she will be conducting research on executive-legislative relations in Latin America. She is interested in how congresses in the region conduct oversight – or how they scrutinize the respective governments – especially on global issues as trade, environment and security. The sample includes Argentine, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela.

For her dissertation on ”Legislative Control in Presidential Democracies: Brazil and United States in Comparative Perspective” she won the ’Best Doctoral Dissertation Prize 2005-2006′, awarded by the Latin American Political Science Association, and Honor Mention at the 2006 Great Prize of Doctoral Dissertation by CAPES, the Brazilian Agency for Higher Education and Research.

She was an APSA/Fullbright Concressional Fellow in 2003-2004; Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University (2003-2004); and Visiting Research Associate at the Centre for Brazilian Studies and St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford (2006).

She edited the book “The Brazilian Federal Senate after the 1988 Constitution” (2008) and has authored several articles on Legislative Studies.

Leany Barreiro Lemos is an Assiociate Professor at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Brasilia. She is currently on leave from the Brazilian Federal Senate, where she served for 17 years as senior staffer. She is fluent in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French.

• Leany’s personal website