Germano Mendes de Paula
Subject studied: Visiting Research Fellow
Matriculation year: 1998
Location: Brazil
Full Professor at the Institute of Economics and International Relations (IERI) at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU).
Germano received a Bachelor of Economic Sciences from UFU (1987) and an MSc in Economics, by the Institute of Economics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IE/UFRJ), with the dissertation Technological Assessment of Brazilian Steel Industry (1992). He was awarded a Dr.Sc. in Economics from IE/UFRJ, with the thesis Privatization and Market Structure in the World Steel Industry (1998). After his time at IE/UFRJ, he was a post-doctorate (Visiting Research Fellow) at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford (with a Research Scholarship from Banco Santos, 1999) and at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University in the City of New York (CAPES Research Scholarship, 2013), both focusing on economic analysis of the steel industry. Recently, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at Insper, in São Paulo City, until July 2024.
Since 1989, Germano has been dedicated to the analysis of the global steel and mining industry. He has published eight books (two as co-editor), 24 book chapters, 450 articles in journals and magazines, and 58 works in annals of events. His completed supervisions include 18 master’s dissertations (of which, one as a co-supervisor), 11 scientific initiation monographs and 96 course conclusion monographs. He has been a columnist for Steel Times International magazine since 2000 and for Revista da ABM between 2001 and 2015.