Alexandre Silva Nogueira

Alexandre is a Senior Research and Training Associate at the Latin America and Caribbean office of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). He currently works in the Government Partnerships program in Brazil, specifically in the partnership with the Office of the Comptroller General of Brazil. 

He is a sociologist and Data Scientist. Before joining J-PAL, he worked for more than four years in the Government of Minas Gerais, at the State Secretariat for Social Development, building strategies to monitor and evaluate the secretariat's main policies, and using data science flows to generate evidence to improve the design of policies and assist in the construction of various State Plans, such as the State Plan for the Promotion of Social Development, and in the construction of strategic indicators for the state, such as the Minas Gerais Multidimensional Poverty Index (IPM Minas).

Alexandre is a researcher at Afro, a research, training and dissemination center on race, gender and racial justice linked to CEBRAP (Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning). He was data scientist and researcher at the Solidarity Research Network; Data Manager at MOA-LAB, at the USP Faculty of Medicine; and consultant at BTA - Betânia Tanure Associados.

He is currently also an associate researcher at NIMA (Integrated Center for Monitoring and Evaluation) at Fundação João Pinheiro, in Minas Gerais; at GIARS (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Social Network Analysis), from UFMG; and at OIRO (Observatory of Innovations, Networks and Organizations), from UFOP.

Alexandre has a PhD and a Master in Sociology from UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais), in Brazil. He also has a degree in Social Sciences from the same institution. His research themes are social inequalities, public policies to fight poverty, evaluation of public policies, and Political and Organizational Sociology.