Paolo de Renzio is a public finance practitioner and scholar based in Rio de Janeiro. He is a convener of the Global Public Finance Lab.

Paolo is Senior Lecturer at the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration of Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV EBAPE). He also holds a regular visiting faculty position at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is a consultant with the World Bank on public finance matters. Previously, he worked at the International Budget Partnership, at the Overseas Development Institute, with UNDP in Mozambique and as an ODI Fellow at the Ministry of Finance of Papua New Guinea.

Paolo holds a PhD from the University of Oxford, an MSc from the LSE and a BSc from Bocconi University in Milan, where he is originally from. He spent the 2021/22 academic year as a Policy Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University.