Marco Cepik is a Full Professor at the Department of Economics and International Relations (DERI), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Since February 2024, he has been the Adjunct-Director of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN). (Doctor in Political Science (IUPERJ-UCAM, 2001). Visiting Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford (2005) and the Institute of International Relations at PUC Rio (2018). Professor at the Department of Political Science at UFMG (1995-2003). Visiting Professor at the University of Denver (DU), Renmin University of China (RUC), Universidade Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique (UJC), Naval Post Graduate School (NPS), Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO, Ecuador), and Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). Areas of expertise: 1) Digital Governance. 2) International Security. 3) Comparative Politics. Leading publications are available at: http://professor.ufrgs.br/marcocepik. ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4147-5486.