Adel Igor Pausini is a sociologist, researcher and member of the Coordinating Committee of the UNESCO Chair ‘Education, Citizenship and Cultural Diversity’, a researcher at the Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation, and a lecturer at Lusófona University, where he teaches modules on undergraduate courses and on the Master’s and PhD programmes of the Department of Museology, having been Director of the Master’s in Sociomuseology since January 2023. He holds a PhD in museology from the same university, with postdoctoral research at the Université Côte d'Azur in the sociology of culture, and is a PhD candidate in the Inter-University Programme in History at the University of Lisbon, the Portuguese Catholic University, the University of Évora and the University Institute of Lisbon; He holds a Master’s degree in Social Sciences (2014) and in Social History (2012) from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and the University of São Paulo; specialisations in Art History, Museology and Public Policy Management, respectively from the Università degli Studi di Milano (2009), the USP Museum of Contemporary Art (2010) and the São Paulo School of Sociology and Politics Foundation (2010); holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Politics (FESP-SP), History (UNIFESP), and Education (UNIP-SJ). His interests lie in the fields of the sociology of culture, sociomuseology, museology and development, theory of the state, theory of elites and kinship, public policies for education and social development, decoloniality and social thought.