Kurt Eberhart von Mettenheim

Kurt Mettenheim served as Full Professor at the Social and Legal Sciences Department and Graduate Programs in Public Administration and Government at the Getulio Vargas Foundation São Paulo Business School (Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo, Fundação Getulio Vargas, FGV-EAESP) from 2008-2019. Formerly University Lecturer in Brazilian Studies at the University of Oxford and Fellow, St Cross College, he has taught at Columbia University, the University of Pittsburgh, the Universidade de São Paulo, and Universidade de Brasilia. Dr Mettenheim is author of Monetary Statecraft in Brazil, 1808-2014 (2016), Federal Banking in Brazil: Policies and Competitive Advantages (2010), The Brazilian Voter: Mass Politics in Democratic Transition, 1974-1986 (1995), editor, with Olivier Butzbach, of Alternative Banking and Financial Crisis (2014), with Maria Antonieta Del Tedesco Lins, of Government Banking: New Perspectives on Sustainable Development and Social Inclusion from Europe and South America (2008), Presidential institutions and democratic politics: comparing regional and national contexts (1997) and, with James Malloy, Deepening democracy in Latin America (1998). Dr Mettenheim conducted research on banking and microfinance in Brazil as fellow of the University of California, Irvine Institute for Money, Technolgy and Financial Inclusion and was resident and co-organizer of an international conference on "Alternative Banking and Social Inclusion" at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. Previously, he founded the FGV Brazil Forecast - GVprevê (a forecasting service and quarterly report for risk analysis and business strategy) and Brazil desk officer for Multinational Strategies Inc. Professor Mettenheim is currently senior consultant on Brazil and emerging markets at the Gerson Lehrman Group Councils.