Mateus Labrunie is a Senior Policy Analyst at IfM Engage (Cambridge Industrial Innovation Policy), specialising in industrial policy, economic development in emerging economies, and finance for green industrial transformation.

EXPERTISE

He holds a PhD from the Centre of Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, where his doctoral research – supervised by Dr Ha-Joon Chang – examined the challenges of industrial policy and technological catching-up in the digital era, with a focus on Brazil. He previously completed a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and a Master’s degree in Economics of Industry and Technology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

• Industrial and innovation policy
• Technological catching-up and productivity
• Finance for green industrial transformation
• Digitalisation and productive development
• Policy design for emerging economies