Geraldo Adriano Godoy de Campos is a lecturer in the course of International Relations at ESPM University, in São Paulo, and a researcher at the Center of Research on Mobilities in the same institution. He is the director of the Institute of Arab Culture (Icarabe) of Brazil. He is the author and co-editor of the book “Participatory Democracy and Redistribution: experiences of Participatory Budgeting in Brazil” (São Paulo: Editora Xamã, 2008).