Osvaldo Quirino de Souza Filho is a PhD candidate at the Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History at the University of Geneva. He is also a career diplomat in the Brazilian Foreign Service and currently serves at the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations Offices in Geneva. His research interests lie at the intersection of political science and political economy, with a focus on institutional issues and challenges pertaining to Brazil. His doctoral thesis examines the challenges faced by Brazilian industrial entrepreneurs and their strategic responses to sustaining growth in the context of a highly constrained domestic credit market in the post–World War II period. 

In 2025, he earned a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Brasília, with a dissertation on the institutional weakness of Brazil’s national security policy-making process between 1990 and 2023. He has also authored papers on Brazilian diplomatic history and foreign policy.

Research Interests 

•     Comparative Political Economy 
•     Varieties of capitalism 
•     Economic History of Brazil and Latin America 
•     Actors and institutions 
•     Banking systems 
•     Neoinstitutionalism 
•     Industrialization and financial development 

2025 

Masters 

SOUZA FILHO, Osvaldo Quirino de. Fragilidade Institucional na condução da política brasileira de segurança nacional: o papel da Secretaria de Assuntos Estratégicos (1990-2023). Master, 2025.