Carla is a Brazilian public policy expert, political scientist, and tenured federal civil servant. She serves as a Special Advisor in the Minister’s Cabinet at the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services (MGI). Since 2011, she has been a member of the career path for Specialists in Public Policy and Government Management (EPPGG), combining institutional administration with academic socio-legal research.
She holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Brasília (UnB), alongside a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of São Paulo (USP). Her academic background includes an appointment as a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley in 2018. Before her current advisory role at MGI, she served as the Director of Digital Participation and Network Communication within the General Secretariat of the Brazilian Presidency, where she managed the award-winning Brasil Participativo platform.
Her research explores participatory democracy, institutional design, digital governance, and state-civil society relations. She was as researcher at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), where she has coordinated the Map of Civil Society Organizations, and remains a collaborating researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP). Her co-authored empirical work on institutional resilience and democratic erosion won the prestigious Prêmio Olavo Brasil Lima Jr for best political science article in 2026.