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Flavia Lacerda

Director of the Capacity Building Institute, Brazilian Court of Audit
Speaker

CADEMIC BACKGROUND:

Ph.D in Information Science, research area Information Architecture (2011-2015) at University of Brasilia, Brazil, with a five months internship at Jonkoping, Sweden. Supervisors: Mamede Lima-Marques and Andrea Resmini. Specialist in Information Technology Management (2008), master in Information Science, research area Information Architecture (2003-2005), and degree in IS also (1994-1999), all at University of Brasilia.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:

Director of the Capacity Building Institute of the Brazilian Court of Audit (2015 - today). It's a corporate university focused on training and knowledge management (http://portal.tcu.gov.br/english/). We coordinate also a Committee for Capacity Building of Latin American and the Caribbean SAIs (http://www.olacefs.com/committees-ccc-training/?lang=en). One of the main areas of the university is the Centre for Research and Innovation (http://portal.tcu.gov.br/inovatcu/), where we do projects in colaboration with other universities and networking with innovation labs like Nesta (http://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/world-labs). One of our main goals is applying Design Thinking methodologies to solve complex problems in government. Another is acting in smart government initiatives in Brazil, promoting events and training (http://www.brasildigital.gov.br/).