Leonardo Veronez de Sousa
32 years old
Nationality: Portuguese and Brazilian
[email protected]
+351915275978 – Lisbon, Portugal.
Education
PhD in Sociology – Program “Democracy in the Twenty-First Century”, May 2015
Centre for Social Studies – University of Coimbra, Portugal
Thesis topic: peri-urban agriculture in Portugal and Mozambique
Doctoral Fellow, Fundação para Ciência e Tecnologia (Foundation for Science and Technology) - Apr/11-Mar/15
Master in Economics, specialization in Economics of Growth and Structural Policies, February 2010
Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Dissertation topic: Evaluation of Exchange Rate Policy in Brazil
Bachelor before Bologna of Economics, September 2006.
UNESA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Theme Monograph: Economic Outlook in view of Tax Reform in 2005.
Advanced online training course: “Diálogo de saberes, investigación transdiciplinar y nuevos paradigmas de las ciencias
y del desarrollo”
CLACSO – Latin American Council of Social Sciences
29Abr13 – 30Ago13
Advanced online training course: “Villes africaines: une introduction à la planification urbaine”, 2014.
Ecole Polythechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – COUSERA.
Areas of specialization
Neoclassical economic theory, Keynesian theories; Neoclassical Theory of Economic Growth, Monetary and Financial
Policy, Fiscal Policy and Political Economy.
Process of evaluation in terms of technology ownership / procedures in areas: economic, sociology and political. Data
manipulation in an approach of descriptive statistics and econometric for quantitative analysis; Qualitative analysis
Project management in both areas: entrepreneurs and scientific.
Current research interests
Observation and analysis of political systems and institutional context of democratic participation linked to socioeconomic and political specificities in cause in the 21st century;
Urban and periurban agriculture, Food systems multidisciplinary approach; Project management;
Identification of innovative socioeconomic phenomena in a multifaceted approach (trans-disciplinary approach);
measurement of such phenomena by economic and political methods in a complementary sociological analysis.
Experience of research
Consultant: August 2015
Project "Meeting urban food needs"
Host institution: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industries
Division
Activities performed:
Coordinate and lead the elaboration of the revised conceptual framework guide for the analysis of complex food
supply and distribution systems meeting urban food needs, in collaboration with others consultants (system analysis
and urban planner) and other external co-authors/contributors.
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Fellow Science and Technology Management: September 2015
University Institute of Lisbon - ISCTE-IUL
Activities performed:
Financial and scientific monitoring of CIS-IUL research projects
Co-preparation and monitoring of applications for CIS-IUL projects
Supporting the preparation of CIS-IUL activity reports
Marketing Assistant (volunteer): September 2014 - January 2015
Project "Meeting urban food needs"
Host institution: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industries
Division.
Activities performed:
Assurances and consulting to "food system analysis" theme;
Project management;
Development of concept papers and scientific articles;
Development of technical design specifications;
Research Fellow: July 2010 – March 2011.
Project: International Observatory of Local Policies for Social Inclusion.
Host institution: Centre for Social Studies – University of Coimbra, in partnership with the Institution United Cities and
Local Governments (UCLG).
Activities performed:
Project management;
Database management and online data platform;
Member of the team responsible for evaluation of policies for social inclusion;
Collaborator of the communications about the policies selected to compose the library of the Centre.
Personal Skills:
Languages:
Portuguese: mother tongue;
English: level B2 (read; speak; write);
Spanish: level A2 (read; speak; write);
Computer Skills:
Microsoft Office Pack: advanced;
Visio: advanced;
MS Project: advanced;
SQL: knowledge
Publications
Sousa, Leonardo Veronez 2015. Food system analysis versus Value chain analysis: a conceptual approach of “meeting
urban food needs”. First Mediterranean Conference on Food Supply and Distribution Systems in Urban Environments.
Roma: Congresses.
Sousa, Leonardo Veronez 2014. Revalorizing peri-urban agricultural land-use: AVAAL and the Agricultural Park of Alta de
Lisboa. RUAF Foundation, Urban Agriculture Magazine, 28.
Sousa, Leonardo Veronez 2014. Agriculturas (peri)urbanas: dimensões e espaços a partir da cidade. Agriculturas
(peri)urbanas: dimensões e espaços a partir da cidade. VIII Congresso Português de Sociologia: 40 anos de democracia(s):
progressos, contradições e prospetivas. Évora: Congresses.
Sousa, Leonardo Veronez 2014. Agriculturas (peri)urbanas: dimensões e espaços a partir da cidade. International
Colloquium Epistemologies of the South: South-South, South-North and North-South Global Learnings – Proceedings.
Coimbra.
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Sousa, Leonardo Veronez 2014. Para além de uma forma de produção cooperativa: as experiências de agricultura
periurbana em Lisboa. II Congreso de agricultura ecológica urbana y periurbana: Huertos urbanos, autoconsumo y
participación social. Sociedad Española de Agricultura Ecológica. Uretra: Congresses.
Sousa, Leonardo Veronez 2013. Em defesa de um regime de câmbios flexíveis para o Brasil? Uma contribuição para o
debate, Revista Pensamento & Realidade, Ano XVI, 28(2), 135-157.
Sousa, Leonardo Veronez 2013. Urban agricultures in Maputo: other forms of production, Internacional Rethinking Urban
Inclusion: Spaces, Mobilisations and Interventions, CESContexto, Centro de Estudos Sociais, 2, 245-268.
Sousa, Leonardo Veronez 2012. Plano de Acão para a Redução da Pobreza Absoluta: uma intervenção ideológica do Banco
Mundial em Moçambique, Cabo do Trabalhos, Revista eletrónica dos doutoramentos do Centro de Estudos Sociais,
Universidade de Coimbra, 7, 104-121.
Allegretti, Giovanni; Meneses Maria Paula (coord.); Meneses, Maria Paula; Sousa, Leonardo Veronez 2011. Ubungo
Darajani, Tanzania: Urban planning, land rights, and food security, Observatório Internacional de Políticas Locais de
Inclusão
Social,
Ciudades
y
Gobiernos
Locales
Unidos
(CGLU-CIDP),
http://www.citieslocalgovernments.org/committees/cisdp/Upload/database/tanzania_2011_en_en.pdf.
Sousa, Leonardo Veronez 2010. Controvérsia em Portugal: o caso da Proposta de Lei 7/XI que permitirá o casamento civil
entre pessoas do mesmo sexo, XI Congreso Nacional y I Latinoamericano de Sociología Jurídica, Buenos Aires.
Cristoffoli, Pedro Ivan; De Carli, Caetano; Santos, Cícero Adriano Vieira; Sousa, Leonardo Veronez 2010. Pesquisa de
Mercado e Viabilidade Econômica nos Assentamentos de Reforma Agrária de Alagoas, Confederação das Cooperativas de
Reforma Agrária do Brasil, Brasília.
Allegretti, Giovanni; Meneses Maria Paula (coord.); Meneses, Maria Paula; Sousa, Leonardo Veronez 2010. União Geral de
Cooperativas Agropecuárias de Maputo (UGC), Observatório Internacional de Políticas Locais de Inclusão Social, Ciudades
y
Gobiernos
Locales
Unidos
(CGLU-CIDP),
http://www.citieslocalgovernments.org/committees/cisdp/Upload/database/maputo_2010_pt_en.pdf.
Communications
First Mediterranean Conference on Food Supply and Distribution Systems in Urban Environments. 06 e 07 de Julho de
2015. System Dynamics Italian Chapter, Sapienza" University of Rome e FAO, Rome. Title: Food system analysis versus
Value chain analysis: a conceptual approach of “meeting urban food needs”.
1st Congress of the International Association of Social and Human Sciences in Portuguese. 1 to 5 February 2015. Faculty of
Social and Human Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon. Title: The dimensions and spaces in peri-urban
agriculture.
Colloquium Urban Aspirations in Colonial/Postcolonial Mozambique: Understanding Planning and Government in
Unequally Divided Cities. 15th July 2014. Lisbon. Title: Peri-urban agriculture in Maputo: dimensions and urban space.
International Colloquium Epistemologies of the South: south-south, south-north, north-south global learnings. 10th to
12nd July 2014. Coimbra. Title: Agriculturas (peri)urbanas: dimensões e espaços a partir da cidade.
Communication VIII Portuguese Congress of Sociology: 40 years of democracy (s): progress, contradictions and forward
looking. Evora: Congresses. 14 to 16 April 2014. Évora. Title: Agriculturas (peri)urbanas: dimensões e espaços a partir da
cidade.
Conference Urban Agriculture. Sustainability and food security, Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, 14th December 2013.
Title: A experiência de agricultura urbana da AVAAL.
2nd International Seminar on Social Science and Development in Africa, Centre for African Studies and Development,
School of Economics and Management, Technical University of Lisbon, 24-25 October 2013. Title: Agriculturas urbanas em
Maputo: suas dimensões e o espaço urbano.
Seminars on Wednesdays at the Center for African Studies, University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, on September 18th
2013. Title: Os desafios da pesquisa de campo: algumas ideias a partir do tema das agriculturas (peri)urbanas.
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III Local Associations Forum, held by the Municipality of Alcanena on 13th October 2012. Title: Os Espaços das agriculturas
urbanas: algumas experiências..
International Conference Rethinking Urban Inclusion: Spaces, Mobilizations and Interventions, held at the Faculty of
Economics, University of Coimbra, between 28th June and 1st July 2012. Title: Urban farmers in Maputo: other forms of
production.
VII Portuguese Congress of Sociology, Society, Crisis and reconfigurations, conducted between 19th and 22th June 2012 at
the University of Porto in the Faculty of Arts. Title: Os espaços das agriculturas urbanas na Grande Lisboa: trajetórias
transversais à cidade, in partnership Juliana Torquato Luiz.
Seminars on Wednesdays at the Center for African Studies, University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, on May 30th 2012.
Title: Experiências de agricultura (peri)urbana coletiva: outras experiências económicas?
XI National Congress and I Latin American Legal Sociology performed between 07th and 09th October 2010, in Buenos
Aires, Argentina. Title: Controvérsia em Portugal: o caso da Proposta de Lei 7/XI que permitirá o casamento civil entre
pessoas do mesmo sexo.
Participation in activities Scientific
 Visiting researcher in Center for African Studies, University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, September 2013.
 Collaborator in Organizing committee of 23rd INURA Conference “Urban (ir)rationalities: Between global dynamics and
local collective actions”, The International Network for Urban Research and Action, June 23th-26th 2013.
 Collaborator in Organizing committee of Officinal Ainda há espaço para mais hortas?, organized by Centre for Social
Studies in partnership Associação para a Valorização Ambiental da Alta de Lisboa, 21st February 2013.
 World Urban Forum (World Urban Forum), held by UNHABITAT, Naples, between 02nd and 06th October 2012.
 Summer School Reinventing the city: participation and innovation, organized by DINÂMIA / CET, and ISCTE Centre for
Social Studies, Associate Laboratory, University of Coimbra, between 02nd and 07th July 2012.
 Visiting researcher in Center for African Studies, University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, between March and May
2012.
 International Colloquium on Solidarity Economy: A Seed the Future, conducted by the Centre for Social Studies University of Coimbra, between 03rd and 04th November 2011 in Coimbra.
 International Congress on Urban Agriculture and Sustainability, held by the City Council Seixal, between 7th and 8th
April 2011.
Other Scholarly Activities
 Collaborator in Observatory of Participatory Practice (OPP-People), now Peoples' Observatory, under the core
Democracy, Citizenship and Law (decide) of the Centre for Social Studies, since December 2009.
Work Experience
Project Analyst: January 2006 - September 2008.
Banco Cruzeiro do Sul S/A.
Av. Presidente Wilson, 231, 24º andar, 20030-905 Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
Activities performed:
Identification of improvements in internal processes in the areas of Processing and Trade Credit, and preparation of
technical specifications and requirements based on solid technological expertise;
Project management;
Development of new projects under Systemic Financial Accounting and Controlling in order to increase efficiency in
banking routines and best available data for internal and external audit;
Focus on operational performance, cost-effective and real results expected from the project .
Financer Supervisor: July 2000 - June 2005.
Ibi Adminstradora e Promotora Ltda.
Alameda Araguaia, 1222, Bloco A, conj 02, 06455-000 Barueri (Brazil).
Activities performed:
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Supervisor in the development team of the Location System Customers and operational management;
Supervisor of the team responsible for the process of locating customers and without contact forms (evaluation of the
efficiency of the registration, efficiency and redundancy of the results achieved) through remote tools (databases),
search engines and external business location;
Project management;
Planning information, Capacity Planning.
References
Giovanni Allegretti: [email protected]
Senior researcher at Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra
Maria Paula Meneses: [email protected]
Senior researcher at Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra
Olivio Argenti: [email protected]
Marketing Economist at The Food and Agricultue Organization of the UN
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