Raquel Guimaraes

Biography

Raquel Guimaraes is a research scholar in the Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program. She is also a member of the Migration and Sustainable Development Research Group of the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program.

At IIASA, Guimaraes is analyzing data from the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance to offer insights for academic studies, partners, and policymaking. Also, she is mentoring a PhD candidate from Ethiopia under the TWAS-UNESCO Climate Change PhD program. Their research focuses on the nexus between climate change, food security, and migration in Northern Ethiopia.

Her research interests include demographic analysis, applied econometrics, development economics, and the intersection of population and environmental change.

She earned her degree in economics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil (2007). She also holds a master's degree in demography from UFMG (2010) and a second master's degree in comparative international education from Stanford University (2012). In addition, she completed her PhD in demography at UFMG in 2014 and has undertaken postdoctoral research at IIASA as part of the former World Population Program.

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Last update: 11 OCT 2024