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Lourdes Sola

Lourdes SolaName: Lourdes Sola

Title: Board Member of International IDEA

Education: Ph.D in Politics, University of Oxford

Current and Previous Positions: She is currently President of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), She was visiting scholar at universities in the US and Europe, respectively, including The Kellog Institute , University of Notre Dame ; St. Antony´s College, Oxford University and was Holder of the “Rio Branco Chair for Brazilian Studies” at University of California, Berkeley, in 2000. She was among the first social scientists elected to the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2000) and was awarded the Order of Scientific Merit (Ordem do Mérito Científico) in 2001, by the Brazilian Government.

Non-academic positions

  1. She was one of the six members of the Council of Ethics in Public Administration, accountable to the Brazilian Presidency, created in May 1998 by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso . The council was given the task to write and implement a Code of Ethics for High Administration,. This position was held until May 2003.
  2. She was member of the Council for Women's Rights created in the wake of democratization in Brazil (1984-6)
  3. From 2002 to 2007 , she was one of the Directors of a Program for the Empowerment and Professional Training for Youth, (Programa de Apoio à Capacitação Solidária), established by the NGO “Comunidade Solidária” , later on Comunitas.

As a Consultant, she worked in Oxford Analytica (Oxford) , in Tendências Consultoria Integrada (São Paulo –2000-2003). From February 2003 her own firm – Polis Analytica - joined the MB Associados, also in São Paulo

A selection of books and articles in English, include

  1. “ Politics, Markets and Society in Lula´s Brazil”, Journal of Democracy, April 2008, Vol. 19, 2. And in Larry Diamond, . Marc Plattner, and Diego Abente Latin America’s Struggle for Democracy, Johns Hopkins University Press (September 2008) ; pp.124-138
  2. with Laurence Whitehead, eds. Statecrafing Monetary Authority. Democratization and Financial Order in Brazil, Oxford: Center for Brazilian Studies, 2006.
  3. “Central Banking, Democratic Governance and the Quality of Democracy” in Statecrafing Monetary Authority. Democratization and Financial Order in Brazil, op.cit. 143-205
  4. “Central Banking, Democratic Governance and Political Authority. The case of Brazil in Regional Perspective”, in Leonardo Burlamaqui, Ana Celia Castro, Ha Joon Chang, eds. Institutions and the Role of the State , London: Elgar , 2000, p.235-265
  5. with Christopher Garman and Moisés Marques, “Central Bank Reform and Overcoming the Problem of Moral Hazard : the case of Brazil” in Revista de Economia Política – Journal of Political Economy, São Paulo, v.21,n.3 , p40-64, 2001
  6. “ The State, Structural Reform and Democratization in Brazil” in William Smith, Carlos Acuña and Eduardo Gamarra, Democracy, Markets and Structural Reform in Latin America, New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 1993.
  7. “Heterodox Shock in Brazil. “Técnicos”, Politicians and Democracy, Journal of Latin American Studies, Cambridge University Press, vol.23, Part 1, Frebruary 1991, pp. 163-197
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