Biography

Assistant Professor of Finance at COPPEAD/UFRJ. He holds a BA in Accounting from Rio de Janeiro State University, and MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Business from the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (EBAPE/FGV). His research has been published in journals in the fields of finance, business, and accounting such as the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Journal of Business Ethics, The International Journal of Accounting, Accounting Forum, and the International Journal of Finance and Economics. He has received many academic awards, including a nomination for the Carolyn Dexter Award for Best International Paper (Academy of Management, 2024), the Clovis L. Machado-da-Silva Award (Brazilian Academy of Management, 2023), two ENANPAD Best Division Paper Awards (Brazilian Academy of Management, 2016 in Accounting & 2023 in Strategy), and a Best Plenary Section Paper (USP International Conference in Accounting, 2018). Prof. Rodrigo Leite has also been twiced featured in SSRN’s Top 10 Download List (2021 & 2024), and is in the upper quartile of economic researchers in Brazil in the last decade, as measured by RePEc.