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Michael França is an economist with a PhD from the University of São Paulo, with academic appointments at Stanford, Columbia, and Oxford. He serves as a Policy Fellow at Insper and Coordinator of the Center for Racial Studies at the institution. His academic and policy work focuses on racial, social, and educational inequalities, intergenerational mobility, and public policy evaluation. He is an author and editor of books on inequality in Brazil, a recipient of the Academic Jabuti Prize, and a columnist for Folha de S. Paulo.