Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira is the Chair in Climate Change Governance and Global Development at the Global Development Institute (GDI), the University of Manchester. He is also Professor of Public Administration at Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV EAESP), Brazil, and Visiting Chair Professor at the Institute for Global Public Policy (IGPP), Fudan University, China. His research and policy interests concentrate in the political economy of governance, institution building and policy implementation at different levels, looking at how global and local institutions are interlinked to steer governance and action.