Ph.D. em Management pela McGill University (Canadá). Associate Professor do Department of International Business da HEC Montreal (Canadá). Member of CRISES - Interuniversitaire Centre de recherche sur les innovations sociales. Co-founder and member of IDEOS – Social Enterprise Management Center, Member of MOSAIC – Innovation and Creativity Center, Master (Management), Rio Grande do Sul Federal University, Ph.D. (Management), McGill University. Possui expertise em Social innovation, social change, social technologies, community-based projects, New forms of local development, post-development, Practice-based theories (structurationists, constructivists, critical), Qualitative research methods, engaged or participatory research.