Christopher Garman
Director
Christopher Garman is a director at Eurasia Group, the head of its Latin America practice, and the lead analyst on Brazil. Chris earned an MA in political science from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and is also a PhD candidate there. He has conducted extensive field research in Brazil, and has published articles in World Politics, Latin America Research Review, and the Brazilian Journal of Political Economy. Chris is a dual citizen of the US and Brazil. He is fluent in Portuguese, and proficient in Spanish.
Previously, Chris worked as a senior political analyst at Tendencias Consultoria Integrada, Brazil´s largest economic and political consulting firm, from 2001 to 2005. Prior to that, he held fellowships at Instituto de Estudos Economicos, Sociais e Politicos de Sao Paulo (IDESP), where he researched central bank politics in the region, and Centro de Estudos de Cultura Contemporanea (CEDEC), where he conducted field research on Brazilian federalism.