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Carlos Pereira Named Recipient of the Guillermo O'Donnell Award

We are delighted to announce that Carlos Pereira has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Guillermo O'Donnell Award for Latin American Scholars. Prof. Pereira, Professor at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV EBAPE) in Rio de Janeiro, will deliver an award lecture titled Between Threat and Breakdown: Understanding Democratic Resistance in Latin America at the 28th IPSA World Congress in Seoul on 13 July 2025.

About the Award
The IPSA Guillermo O’Donnell Award for Latin-American Scholars was launched at the 2023 IPSA World Congress in Buenos Aires to pay tribute to the remarkable legacy of Guillermo O’Donnell, IPSA’s Past President and one of Latin America’s most prominent political scientists. Thanks to the generous support of its founder, Prof. Gabriela Ippolito-O’Donnell, this commemorative award will be attributed biennially to a Latin American scholar residing in the region who has contributed innovative research to political science.