Urban Planning Ph.D. candidate Lee Mackey MPP '08 recently received a year-long visiting researcher position at Brazil's prestigious Getulio Vargas Foundation [3] in their Center for International Relations. The Foundation was recently ranked as the top think tank in Latin America and among the top 25 think tanks in the world in an annual global study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania.
This position complements two other international research affiliations held by Mackey, at the University of Brasilia (Brazil) and the TIERRA Foundation (Bolivia), as part of international fieldwork for his dissertation on the rise of Brazil as an 'emerging donor' of development assistance in Latin America.
In 2012 Mackey received a Fulbright-Hays Research Abroad Fellowship for his research analyzing the rise of Brazil as an emerging driver of regional development and environmental change in Latin America.
Links:
[1] http://luskin.ucla.edu/home
[2] http://luskin.ucla.edu/school-public-affairs/urban-planning
[3] http://portal.fgv.br/en?gclid=CIfEv56B0rUCFap_QgodnlUAIw