Applied Research for
Change – “ARCx”

ARCx builds upon Professor André Corrêa d’Almeida’s twenty-five years of entrepreneurial, management, academic, and leadership experience with applied multidisciplinary programs, teaching, research, and consultancy carried out in the United States, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Asia. Corrêa d’Almeida, Ph.D., M.Sc., is the founding Assistant Director of the Master of Public Administration in Development Practice program at the School of International and Public Affairs and the Earth Institute (EI), Columbia University. At Columbia, he is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at both SIPA and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), where he teaches urban analytics and public innovation. At SIPA and EI he also created, among other initiatives in Jordan, Kazakhstan, China, and Portugal, the Development Practice Lab for high-potential development practitioners (for more details see CV below).

Former Senior Advisor to the United Nations Development Program for program evaluation, to the Global Futures Group for smarter cities, the New York Academy of Sciences for AI, the Kazakhstani’s Academy of Public Administration, and the Brazilian National Council of Justice for AI, Corrêa d’Almeida is currently the Founding President of All4Integrity, a non-profit organization created in 2021 as a result of the #FreeMyCountryFromCorruption movement he launched in the streets of New York City the year before.

He is the editor and co-author of the books Smarter New York City: How City Agencies Innovate and Reform of the Parliamentarian System in Portugal: Analyses and Tools for an Urgent Dialogue and has his research published in several areas of Social Economics, Institutional Development, and Circular City. Corrêa d’Almeida holds a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Denver (United States), an M.Sc. from the University of Saint Joseph (China), and a Licenciatura from the New University of Lisbon (Portugal). He received multiple research awards and is a regular contributor to Apolitical, the Huffington Post, The Guardian, Observador and Público.