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Bruna Santos
b.santos.ri@gmail.com ▪ +55 11 963997561
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Education
MPA, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA),
New York, NY, USA. Master of Public Administration (MPA), received December
2014.
B.A INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE
DO SUL, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Bachelor in International
Relations, received June 2011.
CHINESE MANDARIN, COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITY OF CHINA (中国传媒大
学), Beijing, China. Chinese Mandarin, from August 2010 to July 2011.
Experience
Comunitas - São Paulo, SP, Brazil (November 2016 - present)
Knowledge and Innovation & Innovation Leader
- Lead Knowledge and learning projects at Comunitas, working with a network
of more than 70 cities in Brazil to improve public administration and build
capacity at the local level.
- Intrapreneurship: Created, from scratch, and manages Rede Juntos, a
replicability and knowledge sharing platform, created to foster city-to-city
collaboration and sharing of best practices. Rede Juntos is the first national
platform for municipal governments, helping public servants on Brazil find
the ideas, techniques and tools they need to solve the hardest challenges
cities face.
- Policy Change: Supports directly Mayors, Governors and Secretaries on
initiatives that required learning through experimentation, network building
and knowledge sharing to advance the civic potential of people and
technology.
Reports: Work developed in the State of Para - North of Brazil,
on financial management. More than 60 municipalities, state
government. Project funded by private social investments.
Global Executive Master of Public Administration (Global EMPA) – Columbia
University - Rio de Janeiro, RJ and New York ,NY
Adjunct Professor (part-time)
- Adjunct-professor of Effective Public Management and Public Management
Innovation, with Dr. William B. Eimicke.
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Columbia Global Centers - Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil (January 2015 - October
2016)
Senior Program Officer
- Leadership and Management: Managed more than 20 programs and led
strategic collaboration efforts in the organization. Developed a strong
portfolio of projects and collaborative initiatives with Brazilian public and and
private sectors and other chapters of Columbia University Centers around the
world.
- Intrapreneurship: Responsible for the conceptual thinking for new
strategies for the Center to work with the Brazilian public and private sector.
Led the creation of innovative projects, such as the Innovation Hub, an
initiative carried out by the Columbia Global Center and Columbia University
Engineering School to develop an innovation ecosystem for collaboration and
open innovation in Rio de Janeiro.
- Project Management: Managed full lifecycle projects, prototyping and
launching. Examples: Center COPPE-Columbia for Urban Solutions; Case
Studies on Best Practices in Public Management in the Global South; ICT4D;
E-democracy Observatory (with the Ministry of Culture in Brazil); and Open
Data and Collaborative Governance to Tackle Wicked Problems (Rio Resilient
City Strategic Plan); among others. The Columbia Global Center Annual
report in 2015 features some of the results achieved.
Picker Center – Columbia University, New York, NY (August 2013 - December
2014)
Program Manager and Researcher
- Researcher and Manager of the Picker Center Case Studies Collection on best
practices in public administration.
- Prepared regional case studies focused on Brazil’s development and
implementation of cash transfers policies, including an economic analysis,
stakeholder review, and project analysis.
- Led comparative case studies on Brazil and India open government data
initiatives, and civic engagement technologies.
- Worked and coordinated the inception of the Global Executive Master in
Public Administration (Global EMPA), a hybrid program (on-line and in
person) focused on public and private sector senior leaders from Brazil,
China, India, the US.
Radar China, Beijing, China (August 2010 – December 2012)
Co-Founder and Project Manager
The company was founded in 2010, and in 2011 had already a team of 20
employees – mainly journalists and digital media specialists - with expertise and
resources in data journalism and digital marketing. The organization service
system covers from content creation to dissemination. At Radar China, Bruna led
strategic planning efforts and overseeing all outreach and networking events and
initiatives. Also developed and executed quantitative and qualitative analysis of
Chinese social media; coordinated qualitative research projects for think tanks and
embassies, such as a study on Chinese youth civic-engagement through
technology. Radar China is still operating with a different group of partners.
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Chinatex Oil & Grains Import and Export Co. Ltd, Beijing, China (August 2010
– August 2012)
Market Analyst
- First international employee of Chinatex in Beijing;
- Developed studies in Portuguese, Chinese and English on the Brazilian and
Argentine soybean and corn future markets.
- Collected, modeled data and wrote the annual study about La Niña effects on
soybean and corn world supply and demand.
- Conducted presentations and facilitated meetings between Chinese
companies and the Brazilian and Argentine governments.
Other Activities and Projects
President of the Board - Open Knowledge Brazil (March 2017 - May 2018)
Board Member - Instituto Cidade Democrática (July 2017 - Present)
Board Member - Mandato Aberto (May 2017 - Present)
Co-Founder- OpenGov Toolkit New York, NY (Sept 2013 - December 2014).
FAPERJ/ Rio de Janeiro Grantee/Finalist of the SIPA Dean’s Public Policy Challenge:
innovative projects that use digital technology and data to improve the global urban
environment. Partners: Technology and Society Institute (ITS Rio) / Rio de Janeiro.
Co-Founder - Ethos Intelligence, Beijing, China; Porto Alegre, Brazil (January
2013). Ethos is a social enterprise that works with nonprofit organizations and other
social enterprises helping them to develop strategic plans, performance
management and impact and monitoring reports. Ethos has a network of
consultants in China, Brazil and the US.
Consultant - Rio Grande do Sul - State Secretariat of Justice and Social
Development, Porto Alegre, Brazil (March 2010 – Aug 2010). Implementation of
the International Cooperation Program for the Third Sector (NGOs) in the State of
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Consultant - The B Team, New York, NY (June 2014 – December 2014). The B
Team is non-profit organization founded by world leaders to catalyze change in the
business world though encouraging people-planet-profit centric motives and
benefits.
Transnational Dialogues Residence / Between Crowds and Empires, Rio de
Janeiro, RJ (December 2015 - March 2016). The report is available in this link
(Portuguese)
Volunteer - Brazil Film Fest, Beijing, China (2011 and 2012 editions). Along with
the Brazilian Embassy in Beijing, and other volunteers, I produced two Brazilian