Professor at the Department of International Relations and the postgraduate program in Public Management and International Cooperation from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). He is a researcher at INCT – Ineu and coordinator of the Research Group on Hunger and International Relations (FomeRI) of UFPB. Winner of the Capes Thesis Award in Political Science and International Relations in 2015, he published the book Agricultural Protectionism in the United States (Editora Unesp, 2018).