Leonardo Avritzer is a Brazilian political scientist, writer, researcher, and university professor. Considered one of the greatest political scientists in Brazil today, he graduated from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), completed his doctorate at the New School for Social Research in New York, and later completed his postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was director of the Brazilian Political Science Association (ABCP) and a board member of the International Political Science Association from 2016 to 2018. He was a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo and Tulane University in New Orleans. He is currently a full professor at UFMG, heads the Political Science Committee of the Board of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), and is a 1A researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Since 2018, Avritzer has coordinated the Election Observatory at UOL. He is the author of several books of recognized importance, including: Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America (2001), published by Princeton University Press; Impasses of Democracy in Brazil (2016); Latin American Democratic Constitutionalism in Debate (2017); The Two Faces of Institutional Innovation (2017); The Pendulum of Democracy (2019); Politics and Antipolitics (2020); Democracy under Attack (Springer, 2024) and Elections 2022 and the reconstruction of democracy in Brazil (Autêntica, 2023).