Hometown: Campinas, Brazil

Bio: Felipe Lobo Koerich is a first-year M.A. in Latin American Studies student and a member of the Walsh School of Foreign Service's Class of 2021. He is an accelerated degree student, starting his final year of undergraduate courses for a bachelor's degree in International Politics concentrating in International law and with minors in French and Latin American Studies. Born in Campinas, Brazil, Felipe has also lived in Amsterdam, Houston, and New Orleans before moving to Washington D.C. Felipe has worked at Georgetown as a Spanish tutor and a teaching assistant and, outside of Georgetown, served as the Executive Managing Director of Learning Enterprises, a multinational education nonprofit, for its 2020-2021 program year. He looks forward to studying foreign policy in the context of Latin America, regional governance, and constitutional democracy in relation to the rule of law.

Concentration: Governance and Leadership

Research Area - Substantive: Latin American Foreign Policy, Rule of Law and Democracy, International and Regional Organisations

Research Area - Geographic: Brazil, South America