Diogo is a Brazilian legal scholar and Associate Professor of Economic Law and Political Economy at the University of São Paulo (USP) Faculty of Law. He combines his university appointment with a role as a Senior Researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP). He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in Regulation from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and both a Ph.D. and a Habilitation (Livre-Docência) in Economic Law from USP. His interdisciplinary research focuses on economic law, regulatory policy, antitrust defense, and the intersection of law and public policy. Since 2007, he has led the “Law and Public Policy” research group, pioneering empirical and socio-legal frameworks that evaluate the concrete socio-economic impacts of legal design.
He has also been a prominent contributor to international research networks, working as an investigator on the Law and the New Developmental State (LANDS) project alongside global scholars. His scholarly publications heavily examine state capacity, inequality, and industrial development in the Global South, including co-authoring the international Agreement on Agriculture Re-Imagined initiative draft model treaty.
Active in global academic governance, he serves as the co-chair of the International Activities Committee for the Law and Society Association (LSA). He is a member of the executive committee of the Brazilian Network of Empirical Legal Studies (REED) and serves on the Economic Law Commission of the Federal OAB.