Professor Alfredo Saad-Filho (SOAS) willl examine the recent protest movements in Brazil.
Alfredo Saad-Filho is professor of political economy at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and was a senior economic affairs officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. He has degrees in Economics from the Universities of Brasília and SOAS, and has taught in universities and research institutions in Brazil, Canada, Japan, Mozambique, Switzerland and the UK.
His research interests include the political economy of development, industrial policy, neoliberalism, democracy, alternative economic policies, Latin American political and economic development, inflation and stabilisation, and the labour theory of value and its applications.
