Rodrigo Tavares’ policy and finance career have been complemented by academic work. He is currently an Adjunct Full Professor at NOVA School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), in Portugal, where he teaches sustainable finance and corporate sustainability courses.
His academic path includes the universities of Harvard (Senior Research Fellow), Columbia (Research Fellow on a postdoctoral grant awarded by the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education), Gothenburg (Ph.D.), and California, Berkeley (Visiting Research Fellow). He was also an Adjunct Professor at Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in Brazil (2013-2018) where he was awarded a teaching prize in 2017 for ranking the highest in students’ evaluations.
Rodrigo is the author of 4 books on international relations and economic development (published by Oxford University Press, Routledge, and Lynne Rienner), and multiple book chapters and peer-reviewed articles. The latest articles are focused on ESG issues and were published in the Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment and the Journal of Environmental Investing.
He has taken executive programs at Harvard University on negotiation (2006) and on global leadership (2021); and at Princeton University on energy transition (2022).
Rodrigo Tavares is a Certified ESG Analyst® (CESGA) from the European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies (EFFAS) and holds a Certificate in ESG Investing from the CFA Institute.