Thiago de Souza Amparo

Thiago Amparo is a professor of international law and human rights at the Law and International Relations schools of FGV - Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo. He holds a master and a doctorate in international law from the Central European University (Austria). He is the founder and coordinator of the Racial Justice and Law Center at FGV, where he served for many years as diversity coordinator. In 2023, he taught as a visiting professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in New York and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at New York University (NYU) in 2021. He is a consultant and speaker on topics of inclusion, diversity, and equity, as well as ESG. He contributed to the founding of the Legal Alliance for Racial Equity. He writes a weekly column for Brazil's leading newspaper, Folha de S. Paulo, and is a member of its editorial board, as well as the editorial board of Piauí magazine. He also serves on the advisory boards of the Tide Setubal Foundation and the NGO Sou da Paz.