Ricardo Coelho joined Forus in October 2026 as Trilingual Assistant for Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL). He previously worked on Brazil's 2022 Demographic Census as an analyst at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and as a consultant for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), coordinating field data collection with Indigenous peoples and traditional communities in the Amazon and contributing to the processing of data for publication. Ricardo is completing a master's degree in sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, where his research examines recent innovations in data production on Indigenous peoples in the Brazilian census and how civil society mobilized for their implementation. He works in Portuguese, French, Spanish and English.