Senior Researcher at the Center for Research on Science, Technology and Society at Ipea

Tulio Chiarini holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), a Master’s degree in Economics from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), and a Master’s in Innovation Management from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Italy). He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e le Politiche Sociali at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy.

He has served as a lecturer at Universidade Federal de Itajubá (UNIFEI) and as Head of the Strategy Division at Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia (INT). Since 2021, he has been a Senior Researcher at the Center for Research on Science, Technology and Society at Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Ipea).

His research focuses on innovation and industrial policy, digital transformation, and state development, with particular emphasis on the platform economy and the role of the state in shaping digital markets. His recent work examines how processes of digitalization, platformization, and datafication are reshaping governance structures, industrial dynamics, and state capacity. He is particularly interested in the implications of digital and AI-driven transformations for development strategies, including the design of digital industrial policies and new forms of state intervention. His research increasingly adopts a comparative perspective, with a focus on Brazil, China and other Global South countries.

During his stay at FDDI, he will conduct research on governing digital platforms in the Global South, state capacity, industrial policy, and development strategies.

Tulio Chiarini will be a visiting scholar at Fudan Development Institute from October 12 to November 11, 2026.