Marina Merlo
Gerente De Políticas Públicas at iFood
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolMarina Merlo is a political scientist and data-driven public policy leader with a decade of experience at the intersection of academia, government and the private sector. Currently head of Data Policy at iFood, she manages a team that produces evidence-based studies and analytics to inform public policy, strategy and decision-making while cultivating partnerships with universities and think tanks. Her background spans public management in São Paulo’s municipal administration, award-winning data journalism at Folha de S. Paulo, and research roles at FGV and CEBRAP, combining rigorous social science training (MSc, USP) with hands-on R programming for data collection, cleaning, modeling and visualization. Comfortable translating complex quantitative work into policy recommendations, she also brings practical market research and innovation experience from the private sector. An active researcher and co-founder of a gender-and-politics study group, she blends multidisciplinary networks with the technical chops to drive measurable policy impact.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doutorado, Ciência política, interrompido, Doutorado, Ciência política, interrompido at USP - Universidade de São PauloUniversity of São Paulo
Portuguese, English, French, Russian
Github Skills (2)
python1
dos1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
marinamerlo/dissertacao
Jul 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:40 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
marinamerlo/PMSP_SMIT
Oct 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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