Biography

Bettina De Souza Guilherme is an EU Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre sent by the European Parliament. Her fields of interest are economic governance (European Union, comparative and global), comparative financial and economic crisis management and social and democratic impacts (social movements, populism, and social media).

In the European Parliament, Bettina has worked as an official since 2002 in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON), the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (CRIS) and in the Committee on Development (DEVE).

From 2013 to 2018, she has worked in Brazil, first in Sao Paulo as a Practitioner Professor at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) and later in Rio de Janeiro, where she founded and co-coordinated the bi-regional comparative Jean Monnet Network ‘Crisis-Equity-Democracy for Europe and Latin America’. The research of the network's first term was published in a joint volume entitled ‘Financial Crisis Management and Democracy: Lessons from Europe and Latin America’ (Springer 2021) for which she was both co-editor and author of five articles.

Previously to the European Parliament she has worked as a Labour Attaché and head of unit in the Austrian Mission to the EC and later Permanent Representation being part of the Austrian team negotiating EU accession, Secretary General of the Women of the Austrian Trade Union Federation (OEGB) responsible for equal opportunities, Head of the European Office of the Austrian Trade Union Confederation (OEGB) and advisor to the president of the European Trade Union Federation (ETUC) and Researcher at the European Trade Union Institute on Central and Eastern Europe.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• Digital transformations and society
• Inequality, welfare and social justice
• Transnational Democracy in the 21st century

Completed

• Technological change and society