Joana Castro Pereira is Professor of Politics and International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP) and researcher at the Institute of Sociology (IS-UP) within the same institution. She is also senior research fellow of the Earth System Governance (ESG) network and member of the Planet Politics Institute (PPI). Pereira studies the political challenges of the Anthropocene; the international and Latin American political economy of climate change and biodiversity loss; and the governance of the Amazon. She is the author of numerous scientific articles published in international peer-reviewed journals, including Review of International Studies, Climate Policy, Global Policy, Global Environmental Politics, and Contemporary Politics, and has also contributed many book chapters. Pereira is co-author of Building Capabilities for Earth System Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and Climate Change and Biodiversity Governance in the Amazon (Routledge, 2022), shortlisted for the 'Susan Strange Best Book Prize 2022' of the British International Studies Association (BISA). She is also co-editor of the volume Non-Human Nature in World Politics (Springer, 2020), included in 'The International Affairs Summer Reading List 2021'. Pereira regularly participates as a speaker and organizer of panels and sections in the events of the main scientific international associations in the fields of Political Science and International Relations. She has also collaborated with the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), the EU-LAC Foundation, and the Global Challenges Foundation.