Danilo Limoeiro

Leaving Brazil’s marvellous weather and having to bear Oxford’s cloudy sky during two years was not good at all (and, I must say, British food didn’t help...). However, after working for five years in the Brazilian Federal Government as a policy advisor, I tremendously enjoyed Oxford’s unique learning experience. The Latin American Centre provided me with very good lectures and, above all, great supervision to do my essays and research. Although the Mphil is a multidisciplinary programme, LAC was flexible enough to allow me to go deeper in what I was more interested about – the political economy of development and inequality in Latin America. Today I am back to my policy advisor career in Brazil and I am sure the Mphil programme enabled me to have more to say in my job now. And it also left me very tempted to do a career change towards academia...