Sergio Pereira Leite
Sergio Pereira Leite is associate professor in the Graduation Program in Social Sciences in Development, Agriculture and Society (CPDA), Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), where he was coordinator and where he currently heads the Observatory on Public Policies for Agriculture (OPPA). He was a fellow professor at Brazil and international universities, and scientific advisor of the scientific agencies and also a researcher and/or consultant for nongovernmental and multilateral organizations. Post-doctor in Social Sciences at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, and a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), he is a researcher at the National Institute of Science and Technology in Public Policy, Strategy & Development (CNPq INCT/PPED). He has extensive experience in the social sciences, economics, sociology and politics, focusing in the issues of agricultural economics, rural sociology, public policy, rural development, political economy and sociology of the development.
