Paolo de Renzio is a public finance practitioner and scholar based in Rio de Janeiro. He is Senior Lecturer at the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration of Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV/EBAPE) and holds a regular visiting faculty position at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previously, Paolo worked in the Ministry of Finance of Papua New Guinea, with the United Nations Development Programme in Mozambique and as a Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute in London, and has been a consultant for a number of international organizations, governments and NGOs. He holds a PhD from the University of Oxford, a MSc from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor’s from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, where he is originally from. Paolo spent the 2021/22 academic year as a Policy Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. His research has been published in various academic journals, and he has co-edited two books: “Open Budgets: The Political Economy of Transparency, Participation and Accountability”(Brookings Press) and “A Taxing Journey: How Civic Actors Influence Tax Policy” (Bloomsbury).