Eduardo Vasconcelos Goyanna Filho

Eduardo Vasconcelos is the Schwarzman Academy Fellow in the Latin America Programme at Chatham House. His research focuses on how Latin American countries can move beyond extraction to capture greater value from growing global demand for critical minerals.

Previously, Eduardo was a director in the Child Mind Institute’s Global Programs team, supporting systems capacity for child and adolescent mental health in low- and middle-income countries. He founded a national school-violence prevention nonprofit, Young Peacebuilders, and co-presided over the Harvard Association Cultivating Inter-American Democracy. He was named to Forbes Brazil’s Under 30 in Science and Education.

Eduardo holds a Master of Global Affairs from Tsinghua University, where he was a Schwarzman Scholar, and a BA in Government (Cum Laude) and Economics from Harvard University. Eduardo’s Harvard thesis on illegal gold mining and local government capture in the Amazon rainforest received the Kenneth Maxwell Thesis Prize; his master’s thesis on Chinese investment and economic complexity received Tsinghua University’s Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award.