in economics (1987) from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ), when she defended a thesis about The behavior of aggregate investment in Brazil – 1960/1985 ("O comportamento do investimento agregado no Brasil – 1960/1985").
[4] In 2011, she earned a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) from the College of Liberal and Professional Studies (University of Pennsylvania's non-traditional education division), being oriented by Martin Seligman.
[6] Carlos de Andrade reports to have worked to the banks Icatu and JPMorgan,[7] in positions of "economics and political analysis.
Through supporting initiatives of the venture, sponsorship, orders for researches and courses, and direct donations, are key to attracting and maintain a team of highly qualified professionals (...)[11]The Institute avoids linking its image to the old Brazilian right-wing (associated with the repression supported by the military dictatorship), but Carlos de Andrade herself, before the presidential election of 2002 (in which Lula da Silva was elected), signed an online manifesto sponsored by the conservative journalist Olavo de Carvalho,[13] which denounces the "dominant leftist bias in the national mainstream media", the "informal dictatorship implanted in the media to the control of consciences" and the "establishment of the absolute reign of organized lying.
"[14] All this, it is worth remembering, still under the neoliberal government of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso and just over a year after the death of Evandro Carlos de Andrade, who led with an iron hand the journalism of Globo Organizations for almost three decades (1971–2001).