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| Esther Dweck | |
|---|---|
| Name | Esther Dweck |
| Birth date | 1964 |
| Birth place | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Alma mater | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; University of Cambridge |
| Occupation | Economist; Professor; Public servant |
| Known for | Macroeconomics; Public finance; Social policy |
Esther Dweck
Esther Dweck is a Brazilian economist, academic, and public official known for contributions to macroeconomic policy, public finance, and social policy analysis. She has combined roles in higher education, government service, and policy research, interacting with institutions, political actors, and academic networks across Brazil and internationally. Her work engages with fiscal frameworks, redistribution mechanisms, and the institutional design of welfare systems.
Dweck was born in Rio de Janeiro and completed formative studies at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro before pursuing graduate training abroad. She undertook postgraduate research that connected to comparative projects associated with University of Cambridge scholars and research centers that intersect with labor markets, social welfare, and public budgeting studies. During her doctoral and postdoctoral phases she engaged with scholars linked to Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, London School of Economics, and regional networks such as the Inter-American Development Bank research community, situating her trajectory within global conversations on fiscal policy, inequality, and development finance.
As a professor and researcher, Dweck has been affiliated with Brazilian universities and research institutes, building a portfolio of teaching, supervision, and publication. Her academic work positions her among colleagues connected to Fundação Getulio Vargas, Universidade de Brasília, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, and international collaborators at University of Oxford and Columbia University; she has contributed to seminars and edited volumes alongside economists from University of Chicago, Stanford University, and the European Central Bank research teams. Research topics under her name interface with fiscal incidence analysis, tax-benefit modeling, and public spending evaluation; these lines of inquiry resonate with methodological traditions from the National Bureau of Economic Research, Institute for Fiscal Studies, and the OECD tax policy division. Her publications and working papers often cite empirical frameworks used by scholars connected to World Bank projects, IMF technical assistance programs, and Latin American policy groups such as CEPAL.
Dweck’s supervision of graduate theses and participation in doctoral committees links her to academic networks including faculty from Universidade Estadual de Campinas and visiting professors from Yale University and Princeton University. She has presented findings at conferences organized by Associação Nacional de Pós-graduação em Economia and international meetings sponsored by American Economic Association and Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association.
Dweck has served in ministerial and advisory roles in Brazilian administrations, interfacing with offices such as the Ministry of Finance (Brazil), the Ministry of Planning, and the Presidency of Brazil policy teams. Her public service involved collaboration with ministers, parliamentary committees in the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil), and executive units linked to social programs administered alongside agencies like the Instituto Nacional do Seguro Social and regional development banks. In those capacities she worked in policy design and fiscal coordination with counterparts in state and municipal governments, negotiating frameworks that connected to legislation debated in the Federal Senate (Brazil).
Internationally, Dweck engaged in multilateral dialogues with delegations from United Nations Development Programme, ILO, and bilateral partners from Germany and France on social protection reform. She contributed technical inputs to budgetary cycles that referenced macro-fiscal projections prepared in concert with teams at the Brazilian Development Bank and the Central Bank of Brazil.
Dweck’s policy writings address tax structures, public expenditure prioritization, and redistributive mechanisms, drawing on comparative policy analyses that reference reforms in countries such as Chile, Argentina, Portugal, and Spain. Her essays and policy briefs have been published through outlets connected to think tanks like Fundação Getulio Vargas, Ipea, and international publishers affiliated with Cambridge University Press and Routledge collections. She dialogues with the literature established by scholars from Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, and Brazilian economists associated with Bresser-Pereira’s policy debates, situating her proposals within debates over fiscal responsibility laws, social spending floors, and countercyclical stabilization tools.
Her analyses incorporate microsimulation techniques and public finance accounting methods similar to those promoted by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank for poverty and inequality diagnostics. She has critiqued austerity frameworks and advocated alternative stabilization approaches that align with proposals emerging from policy networks tied to Progressive International and regional coalitions addressing social inclusion.
Dweck’s professional profile includes awards, invited chairs, and memberships in scholarly academies and advisory boards. She has been recognized by Brazilian academic associations and received invitations to lecture at institutions such as University of São Paulo, London School of Economics, and Georgetown University. Her advisory roles have placed her on panels convened by the United Nations, the Inter-American Development Bank, and national research councils like the CNPq and CAPES.
Category:Brazilian economists Category:Women economists Category:Living people