Prof João Carlos Ferraz

Prof João Carlos Ferraz is an Adjunct Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town. Prof Ferraz is a full professor at the Instituto de Economia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (IE/UFRJ), Brazil.  His teaching, research, publications as well as his policy practice advice is focused on subjects related to industrial organisation, economics of innovation and development finance.

He is formerly a member of the Executive Board of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES), the Executive of the Brazilian Development Bank, a Director of the Division of Production, Productivity and Management, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations (ECLAC/UN), Chile, 2003-2007. Dr Ferraz is widely published and has co-authored, amongst others, “Snapshots of a state of flux: how Brazilian industrial firms differ in the adoption of digital technologies and policy implications”, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, (2019) DOI:10.1080/17487870.2019.1578651 and “Investment policies, development finance and economic transformation: Lessons from BNDES” Structural Change and Economic Dynamics DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2017.11.008.