Luciana Coube Cardoso is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow under the LAC-EU Doctoral Network at IBEI - UPF. She is a PhD candidate in the Political and Social Sciences program at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) under the supervision of Dr. Jacint Jordana as part of the MSCA-Doctoral Network “Understanding Latin American Challenges in the 21st Century" (LAC-EU), where her research will focus on Latin America and the Caribbean's involvement in translational and global cities networks. 

Her fields of interest are the European Union's external action, Latin America studies, global environmental governance, cities and territory, and international development. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Pontifícia Universidade Católica in São Paulo, Brazil, a Master’s degree in Urban Policy from Sciences Po Paris, France. Prior to joining IBEI, she was a Programme Management Officer at the UN-Habitat.