Ligia Maura Costa is a full professor at Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo – Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-EAESP). She received her habilitation degree in international law (“livre-docência”) from Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo (FDUSP). She holds a PhD and a LL.M both in international trade law from the Université of Paris-X and a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from FDUSP. She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School and was a postdoctoral fellow at Sciences Po, Paris. She is author of several books and articles published in Brazil and abroad, having worked at the WTO in the Legal Affairs Division. Professor Costa was visiting professor at HEC-Paris during the spring 2011 and she is visiting professor at Universität St Gallen since 2007, teaching the course Doing Business in Latin America. She is professor at Sciences Po. Besides, she has taught and lectured in several other foreign countries, including US, Peru, Mexico and Argentina. She is Chair of the Americas Region in PIM (Partnership in International Management)