Dr Ingrid Aguiar Schlindwein

Ingrid is currently a research associate at the University of Oxford’s Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre.  She recently completed a joint PhD program in International Relations at King’s College London and the University of São Paulo and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS University of London. In her doctoral research, she explored the role of key emerging middle-income countries in the World Bank's strategies, focusing on the international political economy and ideological power of the institution. At SOAS University of London, she conducted research on foreign investment for infrastructure projects in developing countries. She also teaches courses in the area of political economy of development at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Before her doctorate, Ingrid worked in the public sector in Brazil as an international cooperation consultant at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of São Paulo. She was also an intern at Caritas Brazil, helping asylum seekers with their legal demands and at the United Nations Secretariat, in New York.