Fernanda K. Lemos (PhD, 2017, University of São Paulo) is a researcher associate Public Policy Center – Metricis at Insper (São Paulo, Brazil), where she is also the administrative coordinator. She researches how public and private actors interact and organize their activities to improve economic, social, and environmental performance. She has been part of a multi-country and multi-sector research since 2020 granted by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and supervised by Prof. Dr. Burkard Eberlein (Canada – responsible for the project) and Prof. Dr. Sergio Lazzarini (Brazil). She was a former professor at Ibirapuera University, where she founded the master’s program in sustainability and strategy in 2018.
She has published three books in agribusiness, public policies, strategy, and sustainability: Economia da Pecuária de Corte (Beef Cattle Economics) (Wedekin, 2017), Política Agrícola no Brasil (Agriculture policy in Brazil) (Wedekin, 2019) and Alysson Paolinelli: the visionary o tropical agriculture (Meta Livros, 2020). She also contributed to Sustainability Challenges of Brazilian Agriculture: governance, inclusion & innovation (Elsiever, 2023) with the chapter “Brazilian Agriculture and the Global Environmental Agenda” co-authored with Rodrigo Lima. She also contributed with a book chapter in 2024 about Positive public policies in Brazil, writing about Plan of Low Carbon Agriculture (Chapter 5 in Políticas Públicas bem-sucedidas: lições para promover o bem comum). Her PhD research contributed to the sector development as she dedicated more than a year in road show of her first book and the thesis presentations to firms, government and associations in Brazil and Costa Rica. Fernanda has been a consultant to several firms, the Brazilian government, and associations in developing sustainable strategies and public policies to meet climate change mitigation and adaptation.
She contributes to several Brazilian magazines and newspapers like Exame, Agroanalysis, Brazil journal. In 2023 she was editor of Agro in Data, an initiative of Insper Agro Global to bring science-based papers to non-scientific public. Fernanda also published once a month with her own papers as she contributes with Impact blog of Metricis Center at Insper.
Academic Areas
Strategy and Institutional Environment
The “rules of the game” play and change business strategies, and governance structures at the country level, and industry level. These ties bridge public policy, economics, and business strategy unfolding several relationships that are objects of research as non-private strategies, inter-organizational strategies towards governments, and the role of the state as a coordinator in dynamics.
Additionally, the interplay of international institutions, and their role in shaping institutions on the local level or business strategies to answer those requirements.
The New Institutional Economics (NIE) approach is the leading literature adopted to the understanding of those complex interactions.
