Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann is an Associate Professor at the Institute of International Relations at PUC-Rio and a Collaborating Professor at UNILA. She is a CNPq Productivity Research Fellow (PQ2) and a Cientista do Nosso Estado (FAPERJ). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from PUC-Rio (1991), a specialization in International Relations from the London School of Economics (1996), a Master’s degree in International Relations from PUC-Rio (1998), and a PhD in Political Science/International Relations from the University of Tübingen, Germany (2003). She has taught at the London School of Economics (2008–2010), the University of Erfurt, Germany (2010–2012), and the Freie Universität Berlin (2012–2015). She has been a visiting researcher at the European University Institute, Florence (2002), the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) (2017), the European Parliament Research Service (2024), and the Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) (2024).

In her teaching and research activities, she works primarily on the following themes: issues of legitimacy and democracy in international politics; global governance; international organizations and multilateralism; comparative regionalism with a focus on Latin America and Europe; and inter-regional relations, with an emphasis on Latin America–Europe relations. She is a member of the international research networks GRIDALE (https://www.gridale.org/) on integration and development in Latin America and Europe; Jean Monnet Networks Crisis–Equity–Democracy for Europe and Latin America (https://jeanmonnet.iri.puc-rio.br/); EU-Values (https://www.eu-values.eu/); and EU–Latin America Academic Synergies (https://www.eulas.network/).