Lorena manages the Center's Cuban Studies Program and coordinates projects for the Brazil Studies Program.
Lorena Barberia is a Program Associate at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. Since 2000, she has directed the Center's Cuban Studies Program. She joined the Brazil Office in São Paulo in 2006 and serves as part of the staff focused on strengthening the ties between Harvard and Brazilian academic and research institutions. In 2008, she holds a Ph.D. in public administration and government from the Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo, Brazil. Her dissertation research focused on examining distributive politics in Latin America and the impact of democracy, elections and globalization on the Welfare State. She is co-editor of The Cuban Economy at the Start of the Twenty-First Century (with Jorge I. Domínguez and Omar Pérez Villanueva, David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies, Harvard University Press, 2004). She has also participated in research examining the role of Brazilian municipal governments in the promotion of local economic development, worked in Ecuador and Panama as a junior economist and at the Harvard Institute for International Development on research projects that focused on developing and transition economies. Dr. Barberia obtained her master's degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where she received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, and her bachelor's degree in Economics and Spanish from the University of California, Berkeley.
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Lorena Barberia is a Program Associate at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. Since 2000, she has directed the Center's Cuban Studies Program. She joined the Brazil Office in São Paulo in 2006 and serves as part of the staff focused on strengthening the ties between Harvard and Brazilian academic and research institutions. In 2008, she holds a Ph.D. in public administration and government from the Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo, Brazil. Her dissertation research focused on examining distributive politics in Latin America and the impact of democracy, elections and globalization on the Welfare State. She is co-editor of The Cuban Economy at the Start of the Twenty-First Century (with Jorge I. Domínguez and Omar Pérez Villanueva, David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies, Harvard University Press, 2004). She has also participated in research examining the role of Brazilian municipal governments in the promotion of local economic development, worked in Ecuador and Panama as a junior economist and at the Harvard Institute for International Development on research projects that focused on developing and transition economies. Dr. Barberia obtained her master's degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where she received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, and her bachelor's degree in Economics and Spanish from the University of California, Berkeley.
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese