Carlos Frederico Pereira da Silva Gama is a Professor of International Relations at Universidade Federal do Tocantins (Federal University of Tocantins – UFT, Brazil) since 2015 and a visiting scholar at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (Marrocos). His main research interests include international institutions (the UN system, the BRICS group), Brazilian politics, comparative politics, foreign policy, human security, intellectual history, aesthetics. He was Vice Coordinator of the BRICS Policy Center (2010-11) and Director of International Affairs at UFT (2016-18).