Ana Guedes is a PhD in International Relations at LSE. She carried out a post-doctorate research at ISEG/UTL Portugal in 2009. She was an academic coordinator at the Department of Public Policy Analysis at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV DAPP) from 2017 to 2019 and at the School of Communication, Media and Information (FGV ECMI) from 2019 to 2022. She was a CNPq productivity researcher from 2010 to 2019, a Scientist of Our State – FAPERJ from 2015 to 2018, and an IPEA grantee for the project Challenges of the Nation - Development Financing in 2017. Her research interests include international governance and management, internationalization, government-corporate relations, surveillance capitalism and digital diplomacy.