Alfredo Ramos
Alfredo Ramos holds a PhD in Political Sciences from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and wrote his thesis on how participatory democracy shifted up a notch in Brazil. He has worked as a researcher on projects related to citizenship, cultural policies and social innovation at universities in Spain, Portugal, Brazil and France. He is one of the founders and active members of Un Estudio Propio Laboratory for Thought, Culture and Gender. He has also been a collaborator of the “Participative Democracy” project at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). His publications include “Democracia, Escala y Participación” (2014) and “Las Conferencias de Políticas Públicas en Brasil: hacia un sistema integrado de participación y deliberación” (2013).