Fabianna Bacil Lourenço Ferreira is a PhD fellow at UNU-MERIT. She has previously worked with UNCTAD on topics related to innovation and technology and as a researcher for the UNDP in Brazil on projects about social protection and social development in countries in the Global South. Her research interests relate to structural transformation, industrial policy, and economic development.

She has an MPhil from the University of Cambridge (UK) and a B.A. in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and a B.A. in International Affairs from the Fluminense Federal University (Brazil)