Diogo Costa is widely recognized as both a thought leader and an organizational leader in the liberty movement in Brazil, which is among the most robust in the world. Diogo began his career in Washington, D.C. in 2007 with roles at the Cato Institute and the Atlas Network, promoting classical liberal ideas in Brazil before they achieved the extraordinary success they now enjoy in the country. This was followed by five years as a teaching fellow and a professor of economics and political science at universities in Brazil and the United Kingdom, and for an online business school in Spain.

For the past eight years, he has held a series of leadership positions in both educational organizations and policy-oriented think tanks in Brazil, including explicitly free-market shops as well as more mainstream organizations that he was able to move in a freedom-friendly direction. He was previously the CEO of the Instituto Millenium in São Paulo and the president of the National School of Public Administration in Brazil. Diogo holds a bachelor of law degree from the Catholic University of Petropolis, Brazil, and a master of political science degree from Columbia University. He also completed three years of postgraduate study in political economy at King’s College, London.