Viviane Helena Silva da Rocha
Research Associate
Viviane Helena Silva da Rocha is a Predoctoral Research Fellow with the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), supporting the Reporting Guidelines for Publication Bias project, which ultimately seeks to improve the transparency and reproducibility of social science research. Prior to joining CEGA, she was a Research and Policy Associate of the Jobs and Opportunity Initiative in Brazil (JOI Brazil) at J-PAL LAC. JOI Brazil improves the understanding of how best to promote quality jobs and disseminate this knowledge to different actors in Brazil so that public policies and programs are based on scientific evidence. Viviane also worked with the Sustainable Development Department of the French public agency Expertise France supporting the implementation of the EUROCLIMA+ regional cooperation program of the European Commission funded by the European Union, aimed at promoting ecologically sustainable and climate resilient development in eighteen Latin American countries. Viviane holds a master’s degree in Development Economics from the Institute of Development Studies (IEDES) of the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ).