Miguel Lago

Miguel Lago is co-founder of Meu Rio and NOSSAS, and was their CEO until 2019, when he took over as executive director of Instituto de Estudos para Políticas de Saúde (IEPS). Miguel is also a political scientist, and has developed and taught master's courses on the intersection of democracy, health and technology at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University (2018-2022), at Sciences Po Paris (2017-2018) and at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University (since 2023). Active in the public debate, Miguel has published articles in several major newspapers, such as The New York Times, Le Monde, El País and Revista piauí. He is also co-author of the books “Linguagem da Destruição” and “Do que falamos quando falamos de Populismo” by Companhia das Letras, and “Construção de um Estado para o Século XXI”. In 2019, he was awarded the World's 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government.