Flávia Leite
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD)
I am an incoming postdoctoral fellow in Real Estate and Urban Development at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. I am also a researcher at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-Cidades) and a fellow at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA) in Brazil.
My research lies at the intersection of housing and land policy, local economic development, and political economy in the Americas.
I hold a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master’s degree in Public and Urban Policy from The New School, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of São Paulo.
Beyond academia, I have more than a decade of experience working in public and private sector organizations on housing, land use, real estate, and local economic development in Brazil and the U.S. I was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil.